The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from … correlated with labor productivity after other variables are taken into account. We find that climatic conditions do not have a … significant impact on labor productivity once we control for factor accumulation and cultural diversity within countries. Our …

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which … is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity … productivity in a decomposition of output per worker. For a sample of OECD countries, we find that productivity has almost no role …