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 …

the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …

productivity growth in Canada. Results suggest that the impact of a positive relative price shock will - in the adjustment process … - lower productivity growth in the primary and the non-tradable sectors, and increase it somewhat in the manufacturing sector …. The overall impact appears to be slightly negative on aggregate labour productivity growth, but this effect is only …

plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …