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Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always … investments in information technology (IT) in the early 1990s show the largest productivity gains in the late 1990s and that IT … capital investment has a large impact of productivity gains. His evidence also supports the view that the U.S. productivity …
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evidenec that among all industries in the economy industry productivity growth is positively related to R&D intensity and …
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The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article … detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian … inter-industry differences in productivity levels among manufacturing industries. The authors conclude that Canada could …
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productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from … resurgence in the United States, reflecting both an productivity acceleration and greater hours worked and project U.S. output … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for …
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This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …
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We present a simple production technology in which the choice of production technique results in a balanced growth path even in the presence of capital-augmenting technical progress. Given a particular choice of technique, the production function is CES with a less than unitary elasticity of...
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Traditional sources of growth studies generally assume that the nature of technological progress is Hicks-neutral. However, the nature of technological progress compatible with steady state conditions is Harrod-neutral rather than Hicks-neutral. This study thus investigates sources of growth for...
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productivity in the Union is mainly due to insufficient investment and innovation. However to restore investment it strives to … of economic growth theories appears necessary in order to tackle the structural weakness of productivity growth in the …
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The quantitative implications of income taxation for innovation and aggregate productivity growth are evaluated in the …
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implications of individual income tax reforms for innovation and aggregate productivity growth. In the model, innovation comes from … well for the observed movements in TFP, labor productivity, hours worked and number of firms per capita during the “Reagan …
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