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productivity residuals in the United States and Canada. Using data on 19 manufacturing industries, we study the behavior of … productivity using three proxies for capital services. We find that adjusting for cyclical movements in capital utilization alters … many of the empirical characteristics of productivity, both within and across countries …
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Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing decision can be explained by a simple property rights model. The unique availability of disaggregate information on outputs as well as inputs permits the construction of a very...
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Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …
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We study the impact of the Panama Canal on the development of Canada's manufacturing sector in the years from 1900 to … economic activity and productivity dynamics. Our reduced-form estimates show that lowered shipping costs led to greater market … integration of marginally productive Canadian counties with key markets both inside and outside of Canada. This development …
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We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which … incremental increases in the rate of productivity growth translate into incremental increases in the rate of growth of pay …
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This paper discusses a portion of our work linking data on the agriculture sector in the United States and Canada. The … purpose of this work is to explore the evolution of gains in agricultural productivity in the two countries during the post …
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the productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … measured output. Thus conventional productivity measures will be biased downward when such regulations are imposed. In this …" capital and then use this framework to devleop an adjustment to nonparametric measures of productivity growth, purging them of …
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correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …
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The MACE model of Canada employs a nested production structure in which there is a vintage bundle of capital and energy … structure, it is possible to attribute 30% of the decline in labour productivity between 1973 and 1982, relative to a steady … factor proportions, demand, and profitability in Canada were due to the changes in world oil prices and the parallel changes …
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This paper investigates the relative performance of enterprises backed by government-sponsored venture capitalists and private venture capitalists. While previous studies focus mainly on investor returns, this paper focuses on a broader set of public policy objectives, including value-creation,...
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