This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

reverse this trend requires finding ways to raise total factor productivity in poor countries; in turn, this implies letting …

that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …

By the end of 2007, Chile's total factor productivity was lower than ten years earlier, a performance that contrasted … sharply with the previous decade, when productivity grew by a cumulative 30 percent. This paper assesses productivity trends … in Chile, by decomposing productivity into investment-specific technological change (associated with improvements in the …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …

acceleration of labor productivity growth in the United States. The analysis reveals that the increase of total factor productivity …€œgeneral purpose technology.†The paper investigates whether the productivity boom may have dampened employment in recent years. It …