This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … Computer Productivity Paradox as it applies to the public sector. Computers do not appear to be responsible for the … disappointing productivity performance of the service sector. Although the magnitude of our estimated elasticity suggests that the …

This paper extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … to have a significant positive effect on productivity. Moreover, this effect appears to be quite large. The estimated …

productivity comes from productivity changes within firms rather than from entry, exit, or differential growth; that firms which … will exit in the future have lower productivity performance several years earlier (the "shadow of death" effect); and that …, overall, there was little total factor productivity growth in Israeli industry during 1979-1988 (another "lost decade") …

understatement of input growth in manufacturing, and thus. overstatement of growth in productivity. GNP, and value-added in …) improvement in measured manufacturing productivity growth can be attributed to an increase in the rate of foreign and domestic … outsource is unrelated to its acceleration in productivity. In auditing the industry numbers, we found that a non …

operated. using plant-level Census Bureau data, we show that productivity is inversely related to the degree of diversification …, the lower the productivity of its plants. Hence de-diversification is one of the means by which recent takeovers have … contributed to U.S. productivity growth. We also find that the effectiveness of regulations governing disclosure by companies of …

higher rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth than other plants in the same industry. The productivity impact of … LBOs is much larger than our previous estimates of the productivity impact of ownership changes in general. Management …

This paper uses confidential Census longitudinal microdata to examine the association between R&D and productivity for …&D investment 2) higher returns to company-financed research 3) a productivity "premium" on basic research These results are robust …