communications bandwidth, the development of a new economy, and any associated impact on macroeconomic growth and productivity …

average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … does not fall as fast as productivity does. A dynamic model of labor quality and quantity choice by plants is estimated to …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …