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 …

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 …

productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of … markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … significantly more productive, and the productivity gap is larger the less developed is the local market. We exploit the rich set of …

Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro data on manufacturing … establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and …

present data on capital output ratios, on estimated productivity levels and on patent creation, which support the predictions …