This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing …

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik … Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion …

to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation - and multifactor productivity (MFP …

This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the … original invention until a substantial increase in the rate of productivity growth can be observed. There is also strong … persuasive direct evidence that the steam engine producing industry and electric machinery had particularly high productivity …

The paper offers some reflections on the convergence of productivity in the United States and Europe, which essentially …. But since then trends in productivity growth have been importantly affected by the advent of the New Economy, which poses …