T here is little doubt that we are witnessing a technological revolution. The question is, does this technological revolution have revolutionary economic consequences? In particular, is economic productivity growing at a much faster rate today, and if so, will it continue to do so in the future? In this article, we review recent literature on the measurement of productivity growth in the United...

Development and maintenance of structurally complex forests in landscapes formerly managed for timber production is an increasingly common management objective. It has been postulated that the rate of forest structural development increases with site productivity. We tested this hypothesis for Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) forests using a network of permanent study plots es...

We evaluate the e¤ects of aging on productivity using data from piece-rates. Our data contains the population of Finnish blue collar metal industry workers from years 1996-2000. A unique feature of the data is that we can observe the exact hours worked on piece-rates and time rates as well as earnings from both performance schemes. Moreover, a subset of workers receive both piece-rates and time...

A major cause of failures in large database management systems (DBMS) is operator faults. Although most of the complex DBMS have comprehensive recovery mechanisms, the effectiveness of these mechanisms is difficult to characterize. On the other hand, the tuning of a large database is very complex and database administrators tend to concentrate on performance tuning and disregard the recovery me...

The study examined the nexus of interest rate deregulation, lending rate and agricultural productivity in Nigeria by employing co-integration and error correction techniques on annual data spanning 1986 to 2009. Nigeria has embarked on several agricultural policy measures aimed at repositioning and enhancing variables that affects the sector’s productivity. The findings from the study showed th...