behavior of the primal and dual productivity residuals by allowing for increasing returns and imperfect competition. We find …

accompanying revival of productivity growth, directly contributed both to faster output growth and to holding down the inflation … the United States, they did not prevent the US from experiencing a dismal period of slow productivity growth between 1972 … and 1995 nor from falling behind in numerous industries outside the IT sector. The 1995-2000 productivity growth revival …

increase in the productivity and/or the supply of skilled relative to unskilled workers. These effects are stronger when hiring …

countries have essentially scale effects which eventually trickle down on employment and productivity at home. …