Multifactor productivity growth in the U.S. economy between 1919 and 1929 was almost entirely attributable to advance … manufacturing productivity. The sector contributed 83 percent of the 2.02 percent per year overall advance in the private nonfarm … IT with the portion of capital deepening's effect on labor productivity associated with the accumulation of specific IT …

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity …. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …

productivity growth in the United States after the war have formed the basis of the conventional wisdom for decades. In fact …, between 1941 and 1948, total factor productivity within manufacturing declined, and fell even more sharply during the war. The … productivity levels were low. The learning that took place in the mass production of ships, aircraft, and other munitions had …

Manufacturing was responsible for almost all - 83 percent - of the growth of total factor productivity in the U …

This paper examines the level of labour productivity in Canada relative to that of the United States in 1999. In doing …'s relative labour productivity of the total economy in 1999 of around 94% that of the United States. The paper points out that at …

, help provide answers to the latter question. A persisting productivity windfall associated with the build out of the …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

This paper analyzes the contribution of network externalities to the pickup in U.S. productivity in the early 2000s …. The Internet and wireless communication are treated as the central mechanisms of ICT-driven productivity growth. The … approach contrasts with the dominant view in the macro-productivity literature, which places microprocessor speed and …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …