productivity growth in the US economy can be attributed to a technological acceleration within durable manufacturing and to …-factor productivity in the 88% of the economy outside of durable manufacturing. In comparison with the Great Inventions of 1860-1900, the …

accompanying revival of productivity growth, directly contributed both to faster output growth and to holding down the inflation … the United States, they did not prevent the US from experiencing a dismal period of slow productivity growth between 1972 … and 1995 nor from falling behind in numerous industries outside the IT sector. The 1995-2000 productivity growth revival …

’. This Paper provides an overview of the main issues, including faster productivity growth, the stability of inflation … in the stock market. The Paper also considers whether or not the acceleration in productivity growth can be sustained …

adopt this approach for the USA and UK, and find support for stationarity of the great ratios when structural breaks are …

The economic boom of the USA in the 1990s was remarkable in its duration, the sustained rise in equipment investment …, the reduced volatility of productivity growth, and continued uncertainty about the trend growth rate. In this paper we …

1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for … the positive correlation between wages and diversity survives a battery of robustness checks, it seems to be larger once … wages. Comparing real and nominal wages across cities, we interpret these results as evidence that diversity enhances …