instead to demand factors as the main force behind the strong positive comovement between output and labor input measures …

This paper investigates the shift in demand towards skilled labor in U.S. manufacturing. Between 1979 and 1989 … buildup and trade deficits can account for only a small part of the shift in demand towards non-production workers. We … conclude that production labor-saving technological change is the most likely explanation for the shift in demand towards non …

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 …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel - the minimill - on the aggregate productivity of … industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills … third of the increase in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills …

innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …

our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … rather than providing a new permanent era of faster productivity growth. This joint transatlantic post-2005 slowdown is …

The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three major industrialized countries, the U ….S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs … differences in factor demand schedules; we also find that for all countries the speed of adjustment for capital is higher than …

In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We … and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate into …