The productivity slowdown
Health, Longevity, and the Productivity Slowdown
... of productivity slowdown in Western ...the productivity slowdown has a possibility to occur with aging of the ...the slowdown is caused by aging phenomenon through rises in longevity is ...
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Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown
... increasing productivity differences between firms in the same sector, and the productivity ...“superstar productivity puzzle”: despite the rapid growth of a few highly productive and already large ...
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Payment Uncertainty and the Productivity Slowdown
... Abstract This paper proposes a simple model that possibly explains the productivity slowdown observed in Japan during the 1990s. Under a forbearance policy by the government toward nonperforming loans, one ...
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Unemployment and the Productivity Slowdown: A Labour Supply Perspective
... characteristic of the rise in European unemployment. We believe that this is key to understanding different responses of unemployment to the productivity slowdown in the US and Europe. To capture this ...
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Understanding the productivity slowdown The importance of entry and exit of workers
... the productivity slowdown The importance of entry and exit of workers Abstract: Many OECD countries have experienced a slowdown in measured labour productivity from 2005 and ...the ...
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The productivity slowdown puzzle of European countries: a focus on Italy
... The slowdown of the GDP growth rate, the deterioration of labor productivity, total factor productivity and investments are all common ...European slowdown during the Great Recession, with a ...
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Market Concentration and the Productivity Slowdown
... the productivity growth rate, and productivity gaps between firms observed in the ...aggregate productivity growth, higher leader market share on average, higher average markups, a larger profit ...
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Allocative Efficiency and the Productivity Slowdown
... The slowdown in productivity growth was among the most significant macroeconomic developments in the past few decades and has captured much attention among academic researchers and ...aggregate ...
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Embodied Technological Progress and the Productivity Slowdown in Japan
... We measured the obsolescence rate by estimating the production function, which is similar to the one employed in Sakellaris and Wilson (2004). We added several control variables to their equations. The estimated ...
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Embodied Technological Progress and the Productivity Slowdown in Japan
... We measured the obsolescence rate by estimating the production function, which is similar to the one employed in Sakellaris and Wilson (2004). We added several control variables to their equations. The estimated ...
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Raw Materials, Profits, and the Productivity Slowdown (Rev)
... Panel 6 of the table shows the rate of profit in selected years There is some evidence of a long-run fall in the rate of profit during the 1960s which may be connected with capital deepe[r] ...
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Embodied technological change learning-by-doing and the productivity slowdown
... sumption goods sector. We show that such a shock generates a rise in the decline rate of investment prices and a reduction in the rate of disembod- ied technical change, consistently with the observations in Greenwood ...
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The productivity slowdown and the declining labor share: a neoclassical exploration
... labor productivity shifts about ...of productivity slowdown can generate a deceleration of educational attainment in our model, such as has been observed in the ...a productivity ...
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Optimal fiscal policy, public capital, and the productivity slowdown
... Finally, by specifying public capital as a per capita quantity, we link our model to previous empirical specifications in the literature which typically do not include any explici[r] ...
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Labor: Reconciling Accelerated SBTC with the Productivity Slowdown
... where ln a su , the relative efficiency parameter in 1963, is a constant and ξ an error term satisfying the usual properties, IID. In these models, new technologies increase the relative productivity of skilled ...
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Is the Productivity Slowdown in the US and the Acceleration in the Euro Area Structural or Cyclical?
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Is the UK productivity slowdown unprecedented?
... the productivity slowdown. 3 If the productivity slowdown is not primarily a statistical artefact and is unprecedented, what might be the explanation for such a dramatic turn of events? It is ...
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The Role of ICT on the Spanish Productivity Slowdown
... a productivity slowdown since the middle of the ...of productivity that lasted until ...the productivity slowdown in the US 1 ...
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The pre 1914 UK productivity slowdown : a reappraisal
... the productivity slowdown just prior to World War I is a precedent for today’s productivity ...current slowdown with those reported in Table 1 relating to ...labour productivity growth ...
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Sources of Productivity Slowdown in European Countries During 1990s
... countries, productivity has been above Usa level, but it has lost some ground since ...labour productivity in USA has increased ...rope productivity growth rates have decreased the level of ...
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