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 …

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

productivity in recent relative to earlier cohorts when productivity of an individual is measured by the number of AER equivalent … publications. Diminished productivity is less evident when number of AER equivalent pages is used instead. Our findings are … toward longer manuscripts. This decline in productivity is evident in both graduates of top thirty and non-top thirty ranked …

We present hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and productivity differences across Canada … Allophones, and lowest in more remote cities. Toronto is Canada's most productive city; Vancouver is the overall most valuable …

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

The paper derives a consistent accounting framework for the treatment of inventories when measuring the productivity of … 9.6 percent per quarter total factor productivity growth rate over 6 quarters …

of three identified shocks – surprise TFP, news of future TFP, and "sentiment" – from the US to Canada. The US sentiment … business cycle comovement between the US and Canada, accounting for up to 50% of the forecast error variance of Canadian GDP …

James A. Schmitz (2005) documents, in a well-known case study, a dramatic rise in productivity in the U.S. and Canadian … productivity to a change in work practices in the industry, as old negotiated union work rules were abandoned or modified. This … research formalizes a mechanism through which a rise in competition can lead to increased productivity in the iron-ore industry …

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 …