Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …

Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

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 …

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 …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …