Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows...

This paper examines the effects of changes in Canadian immigration policy on the occupational composition of immigration. The authors focus on 1967 changes that created a regulatory system, including the point system, that still forms the framework of Canadian immigration policy. They find that...