This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the evaluation of skillbiased technical change. Using the general index approach we are able to establish an explicit and unconstrained time path for nonneutral technical change between production and...

This chapter considers the evidence on productivity growth in transportation industries and provides a critical review of efforts to distinguish the nature and sources of technical progress. Regulatory reform and technological advance have contributed to productivity growth that is nonneutral...

This article introduces a two-step empirical approach for examining both the nature and sources of non-neutral technical change across multiple occupations. First, conventional labour-demand parameter estimates and unbiased tests for neutrality are obtained in the context of a flexible cost...

The traditional concentration of basic research activities in academic settings, with applied research more prevalent in industrial settings, is a distinguishing feature of science and technology markets. This structure arises from a unique combination of product characteristics, and in turn it...