2000. Provides a general overview of the Chilean political and economic systems, describes economic and employment …-designed policy and legal environments that lead to employment creation in MSEs. …

negative impacts on employment and productivity. We argue for a more nuanced theoretical position: labour law is, at least in … regulation and growth in employment and productivity, at least for France and Germany. No relationship, either positive or … negative is found for the UK and although the US shows a weak negative relationship between regulation and employment growth …

negative impacts on employment and productivity. We argue for a more nuanced theoretical position: labour law is, at least in … regulation and growth in employment and productivity, at least for France and Germany. No relationship, either positive or … negative, is found for the UK, and although the US shows a weak negative relationship between regulation and employment growth …

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

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 …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … attempt to explain the paradox of productivity-enhancing public policies and the continuation of poor productivity performance … the productivity-enhancing effects of further liberalization may be quite small. …

employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … falling employment-population ratio contributed to the decline in our standard of living relative to that in the United States …

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 …