their association with productivity growth across 19 sectors in UK manufacturing between 1970 and 1992. Using the … in 1970. Sectors classified as relatively open enjoyed significantly higher rates of total factor productivity (TFP … productivity and lagged values of each of the observed measures of openness. This relationship was explained by a strong …

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity …. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …

This paper compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from … Statistics Canada's KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the paper examines productivity growth in … labour productivity growth and multifactor productivity growth than did the aggregate Canadian business sector and had …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

from the EUKLEMS database. Our main findings are as follows. Over 2000-2005, market sector labour productivity grew at 2 … innovation contributed 61% (=(1.24+0.45)/2.74)of labour productivity growth over the period. -- Innovation ; productivity growth …