This paper studies the innovation dynamics of an oligopolistic industry. The firms compete not only in the output … market but also by engaging in productivity enhancing innovations to reduce labor costs. Rent sharing may generate … productivity dependent wage differentials. Productivity growth creates intertemporal spill-over effects, which affect the …

This paper studies the innovation dynamics of an oligopolistic industry. The firms compete not only in the output … market but also by engaging in productivity enhancing innovations to reduce labor costs. Rent sharing may generate … productivity dependent wage differentials. Productivity growth creates intertemporal spillover effects, which affect the incentives …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article …, product market competition, and government support for R&D, training, and technical assistance are the drivers of innovation …

The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …