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What's Been Driving the US Productivity Surge?


What's Been Driving the US Productivity Surge? - AEI

The US economy has shown encouraging rates of productivity growth since late 2022 that have lifted labor productivity to more than 6 percent above the pre- ...

In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity

The post-pandemic surge in new-business creation is a major factor contributing to rising productivity. The entry and growth dynamics among ...

HOT TOPIC: Can Productivity Keep Driving the U.S. Economy?

Increases in labor productivity are typically driven by improved tools and technology, more efficient processes and organizations, and increased worker ...

The Recent Rise and Fall of Rapid Productivity Growth

Information technology fueled a surge in U.S. productivity growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s ... The past decade has been wrenching for the ...

The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry ...

The slow growth observed since 2010 has been even more striking: labor productivity grew just 0.8 percent from 2010 to 2018. As the slowdown in labor ...

America's Labor Productivity Sets it Apart - TD Economics

Highlights · The U.S. economy has been one of the strongest growing advanced economies since the pandemic. · The U.S. is unique in seeing its rate ...

Opinion | U.S. productivity is popping. And it's not because of AI.

One shift in the post-pandemic economy that is much more likely to be driving America's productivity pop: the surge in new business creation ...

Investing in productivity growth | McKinsey

If the United States had not had a manufacturing slowdown, its GDP per capita in 2022 would have been around $5,000 higher. If growth in capital ...

After 150 years, the American productivity miracle is over - Quartz

American workers still produce some of most economic activity per hour of any economy in the world. But the near-miraculous productivity growth that ...

US Labor Productivity - Simon Business School

In this blog, Dean Sevin Yeltekin points to productivity as the key ingredient that drives US economic growth ... That surge has been continuing ...

Sustained Economic Growth Hinges on Productivity Gains as ...

But while innovation is exactly what's needed to revive productivity growth, it is not sufficient on its own. New technologies and digital ...

The Mystery of Weak Manufacturing Productivity - AEI

So what's going on here? Lashkari and Pearce run through a number of possible culprits. For example: To determine if weaker capital investment ...

Productivity continues to rise in a potential game changer for the ...

The increase in American productivity over the ... But we think there's more to the story about what's driving the surge in productivity:.

What is labor productivity, and how has it changed in the US over ...

Over the past several decades, technological innovations, work experience, and investments into worker efficiency and equipment have driven the ...

Rekindling US productivity growth for a new era - McKinsey

Regaining historical rates of productivity growth would add $10 trillion to US GDP—a boost needed to confront workforce shortages, debt, ...

The American Economy: Producing More with Less?

What could cause such an increase? Either improvements in technology or changes in the production process that would enable workers to get more done in the same ...

Unprecedented U.S. immigration surge boosts job growth, output

Because economic growth depends on labor, capital and productivity, growth in these factors will set the speed limit of the economy. While ...

The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead?

The fact that productivity growth has accelerated during the past five years suggests, at least to us, that the improvement has not been cyclical, but rather ...

U.S. economy is showing some productivity pep - Axios

Driving the news: Fresh data Thursday showed U.S. labor productivity growth jumped by a 4.7% annualized rate in the third quarter. That's ...

What Drives Productivity Growth? - Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Thus, accumulation of tangible assets and human capital. (measured as labor quality gains) has been an important part of. U.S. output and productivity growth ...