. Gefragt wird danach, inwieweit die sog. 'new economy' mit neuen Formen der Arbeitsorganisation verbunden ist. Ziel des … Workshops war es, eine theoriegestützte komparative Diskussion über die Erfahrungen in Japan, den USA und der EU zu anzuregen … USA als Indikator für ein Wachstum ohne zyklische Abschwünge gewertet werden kann. Michael Müller-Camen u. a. präsentieren …

s differed from its predecessors in three important respects: productivity, inflation, and cyclical variability. In the … United States, labor productivity increased much faster in the 1990s than in the previous decades and, contrary to the usual … pattern, accelerated with the duration of the expansion. The view that most of the productivity acceleration was only cyclical …

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 …

sector and industry, the paper demonstrates that about half the increase in labor and capital productivity in the new economy … periods, half of the growth in real output per worker (Q/N) is attributable to increases in capital productivity. Increase in …