Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … greatly exceeded that recorded in Canada. Output per hour in Canada fell 20 percentage points from 87 per cent of the US level … in 1994 to 67 per cent in 2001. This development has been responsible for most of the widening of the aggregate Canada …

and the Industrial Statistics Yearbook, discusses labour productivity growth in manufacturing in Sri Lanka. …

Investigates the role of women workers in the manufacturing sector in general, and its sub-sectors in particular, from … 1971 to 1991, especially in the light of technological development, globalization and employment flexibility. …

relationship between competitiveness, manufacturing capabilities and employment. Proposes a manufacturing capability index and …Based mainly on surveys of 40 manufacturing enterprises in Mauritius and 41 enterprises in Kenya, examines the …

inter-industry differences in productivity levels among manufacturing industries. The authors conclude that Canada could …, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada provide additional evidence of this relationship through a … manufacturing. The firm-level data suggest that experienced employees and new university graduates, cooperation with other firms …

contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards … of government productivity; and a review of a recent volume on productivity issues in Canada. …