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 …

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 …

productivity (TFP) at the industry level during the period extending from the early 1960's to the mid-1970's. The data base …-Penn-SRI manufacturing data file. A hypothesis suggested by previous research on the R&D-productivity relationship is that, due, perhaps, to … recent years. Our findings indicate, however, that the relationship between an industry's R&D-intensity and its productivity …

is an important determinant of earnings and thus of labor productivity, holding constant employee at-tributes such as age … for estimation of the marginal productivity of workers classified by length of service to the firm, i.e., of the tenure-productivity … changes in labor turnover behavior) on manufacturing productivity performance …

manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …