In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …

had no discernible effect on U.S. industrial productivity growth. This paper addresses this paradox by stressing that … produced high tech weaponry. Analysis employing data from the NBER Manufacturing Productivity Database and the BEA' s Input … Output tables then demonstrates that defense procurement policies did have significant effects on the productivity …

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 …