, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to …

A statistical agency faces several challenges in building Productivity Accounts. What started out as a request for … simple ratios of output to employment has moved to a demand for multifactor (total factor) productivity measures that take … productivity measurement. International comparisons of GDP have benefited immensely by the development of international standards …

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 …

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 …

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 weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting …. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary activities. For lower-productivity firms, incurring the fixed … foreign tariffs will induce these firms to simultaneously export and invest in productivity. In contrast, lower foreign …

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 …

This is the first paper to directly measure and decompose total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Canadian life …