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 examines the level of labour productivity in Canada relative to that of the United States in 1999. In doing …'s relative labour productivity of the total economy in 1999 of around 94% that of the United States. The paper points out that at …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

This paper examines the influence of the self-employed on the growth in labour productivity in the business sector … over the decade has resulted in downward pressure being put on the growth in aggregate labour productivity in the business … productivity growth in the business sector throughout the 1990s. Almost all of the difference in labourproductivity growth between …

emphasis, as the use of these technologies has been shown to be closely associated with changes in relative productivity …

changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between … use of intermediate inputs. We find that foreign control increases productivity growth in domestically-controlled plants … positive productivity effects of foreign control are more pronounced for those plants that outsource more intermediates, and …