This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

of manufacturing labour productivity in Germany compared to Britain between 1895 and 1938. In this paper, we re … labour productivity in German manufacturing in 1907 was about 8.4 percent higher than in Britain. This is slightly different … from our earlier finding of a German productivity advantage of only 5 percent, but substantially below Ritschl's claim of a …

the south of the country, (2) the effect of the mining output shock on output and productivity growth in other sectors …

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 …

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 …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …