Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

from country industry variation in the adoption of robots. Our model also implies that the productivity implications of … aging are ambiguous when technology responds to demographic change, but we should expect productivity to increase and labor …

productivity growth, and decompose it into technical efficiency change and technical progress. Our empirical results indicate that … world productivity growth was led by fast-growing newly emerging economies, whereas most developed countries experienced a … decrease in productivity growth. Technical efficiency change significantly contributed to economic growth for many fast …