Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries … felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment …

-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at … constrained. More importantly, we find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors. …

This paper seeks to investigate the transmission mechanisms linking productivity to the real exchange rate in the … former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. At first glance, the stylized facts-low labor productivity growth and a trend real …

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. …

analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …

productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …

relief, would depend on a recipient country's initial economic conditions and level of total factor productivity. …

(FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …