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 …

last fifteen years. Changes over time in trade flows and trade balances are influenced by trends in productivity in the …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …