wider this gap. I also analyze in detail the pro-cyclical labor productivity created by the use of shiftwork.  …

true even when we control for variation in productivity and creditworthiness. More open economies also are found to have …

Abstract Over the 1995-to-2000 period, U.S. productivity growth moved up to rates not seen in several decades. In this … paper, I use time-varying parameter techniques to isolate trend from cyclical movements in productivity and to estimate the … trend rate of productivity growth. My estimates suggest that trend productivity growth moved up from around 1-1/2 percent in …

synthetic materials and microelectronics. Yet its productivity performance was significantly worse than that of both developing …

Abstract Labor productivity comoves strongly with output, leads output and employment, and is only weakly correlated … with employment. Procyclical productivity is observed in virtually all countries and industries, and it is observed even in … shows that a standard RBC model driven by demand shocks alone is able to explain procyclical productivity without the need …

Abstract The technology growth trends that underlie recent productivity patterns are investigated in a framework that … downward shift in total factor productivity growth in the late 1960s and an upward shift in investment-specific technology … growth in the mid-1980s. In both cases, these breaks precede the generally recognized dates of labor productivity growth …

Ability of managers and other nonproduction professionals is key for the productivity of firms. Hence, the assignment … of heterogeneous nonproduction workers across firms determines the distribution of productivity. In turn, the … transmission of productivity differences into profit differences -- resulting from product market competition -- determines firms …

corresponding gain in productivity and higher profits or net revenues.  …

' productivity, multinationals' technological advantage over the local competitors is only moderate, and the establishment of foreign …