This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …

growth model with macroeconomic variables observed in the data. The paper finds that total factor productivity and the … consumptionleisure trade-off the productivity and labor factors are key to understanding the changes in output, labor supply and labor … productivity observed in the Canadian economy. The paper performs a decomposition of the labor factor for Canada and the United …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …

Global climate change will increase outdoor and indoor heat loads, and may impair health and productivity for millions … future labour productivity. In most regions, climate change will decrease labour productivity, under the simple assumption of …, and the Caribbean. Climate change will significantly impact on labour productivity unless farmers, self-employed and …