We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the …

productivity of the investment goods constructing hedonic prices indices. This school is represented among others by Hulten (1992 …The productivity generated by capital goods is not uniform along the time. When there exist conventional physical … capital goods the productivity obtained is minor that the one generated by quality capital goods. To obtain a correct measure …

made reluctance for companies. I found out empirical relations between IT investment and corporate productivity. Analyses … being produced by IT investment. Based on these results, I showed how productivity improvement supported by IT investment …Japanese IT investment has stagnated. Though some Japanese companies are investing in IT, this does not represent …

The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over …. Traditionally, productivity has been introduced as explaining factor of tertiarization processes in advanced economies, while it has … been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic …

.2%, high job creation and a sharp increase in public and private spending. However, this masked low productivity, a growing … of within regional productivity. In doing so, the paper firstly presents a sythetic description of the features that have …