, Großbritannien, Italien, Niederlande und Schweden) in Hinblick auf die Diffusion und die Wirkungen des Einsatzes moderner …

significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is … low-technology provinces. Based on the metafrontier estimation, TFP growth is decomposed into TE change (TEC), technical …

despite conservative estimation, although unit costs greatly differ between the two industries. Higher unit cost in Kenyan … firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

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 …

This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … productivity for improving living standards and quality of life. We will be publishing twice a year articles from leading … researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a …

It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States …. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for … this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment in both Canada and the United States and attempts to explain why …

Puzzles intrigue and motivate researchers and focus research effort, and the productivity area is fortunate in having … and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … other countries. In terms of the international puzzles, he considers the causes of the post-1973 productivity slowdown that …

has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have … fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …

the current lull in investment, productivity growth in Canada should continue to remain fairly robust as firms continue to … condition for the full realization of the productivity gains associated with ICT. Using aggegate data, the author finds … econometric evidence that the impact of computer investment is not fully realized until three years after the initial investment …