related to two measures of performance - productivity growth and market-share growth. The paper describes whether plants are … with relative productivity growth. In turn, growth in relative labour productivity is translated into growth in market … or the quality of their product and concomitantly their labour productivity with an increase in market share. The paper …

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts … continuing producers. The paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of plant turnover on productivity growth and outlines …

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of firm turnover as output is shifted … continuing firms. This paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of firm turnover on productivity growth and shows that … associated with competition is the main source of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canadian manufacturing industries …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is … because of the pro-cyclical nature of productivity growth arising from capacity utilization. Almost all of the aggregate …

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 international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …