economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency …-national empirical studies and by theoretical advances. Recent research seems to suggest that there is no efficiency-equity trade-off and … that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, self-employment remains constrained to low-productivity … labor away from these low-productivity activities into higher value added sectors. …

third section looks at the relative importance of the determinants of living standards ?productivity, working time … conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …, eliminating the Canada-US productivity gap, is by far the most important and effective way to attain the objective of Canadian …

In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …