Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth … weaker productivity growth. It is estimated that these two factors themselves account for 70 per cent of the widening of the …

This Selected Issues paper focuses on financing constraints and productivity in Estonia. The paper examines two …-level total factor productivity (TFP)? These questions are particularly important in the current environment, in which credit …

This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …

accounting for different standard factors, such as size, capital intensity and productivity, and also some ownership …

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …

environment the sector experienced an above-average productivity performance, driven in particular by the wood product … manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the … productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from impressive, especially in the post-2008 period …

THIS MARKS THE 20th issue of the International Productivity Monitor (IPM). The Centre for the Study of Living Standards … past decade. This issue contains five articles on: the impact of the economic crisis on potential output and productivity … growth in Canada; the sensitivity of estimates of Canada-U.S. capital intensity and multifactor productivity gaps to …

This article, based on the CSLS Provincial Productivity Database, provides a portrait of the productivity performance … productivity are presented and discussed, with an emphasis on the provinces’ market sector. Two-digit NAICS industry level … framework is used to determine the sources of labour productivity growth, as well as the sources of labour productivity level …

-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at … constrained. More importantly, we find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors. …