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 …

productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …

developing countries. The paper finds that the traded-nontraded productivity differential is a significant determinant of the …

growth suggests Balassa-Samuelson factors at play. However, after 1990, the tradable-nontradable labor productivity gap, the …

Junk-food consumption, health and productivity are analyzed within an expectedlifetime- utility-maximizing framework in … which the probability of living and productivity rise with health and health deteriorate with the consumption of junkfood … physiologically optimal and renders the levels of health and productivity lower than the maximal. Taxing junk-food can eliminate this …