productivity growth. He contends that while the introduction of technologies offers profits to investors and premiums for skilled …

Project on Emerging Companies, an interdisciplinary research project that analyzed 170 technology start-up firms, the authors …

learned about productivity, efficiency, and technology from the data used by both papers. The first set of issues are …Several recent papers in the American Economic Review examined important questions regarding productivity growth and …

productivity/technology shock explanation. This study tries to discriminate between these hypotheses by estimatinf the labor input …In empirical studies the finding of procyclical average labour productivity is common. Two possible explanations to … coefficient in a production function regression with instrumental variables that are assumed to be unrelated to technology shocks. …

. Since the technologies in these tasks are designed to be used by skill workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. …

This paper investigates the response of hours worked to a permanent technology shock. Based on annual data from Canada …, we argue that hours worked rise after a positive technology shock. We obtain a similar result using annual data from the … United States. These results contradict a large literature that claims that a positive technology shock causes hours worked …

U.S. workers are not only making more stuff, but, thanks to improvements in technology and production, they're doing it …