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Outsourcing, offshoring, and productivity measurement in manufacturing

Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.

I discuss reasons why manufacturing productivity statistics should be interpreted with caution in light of the recent growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U.S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant...

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Labour Productivity of Unincorporated Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships : Impact on the Canada-United States Productivity Gap

Baldwin, John R. - 2011

This paper asks how the performance of self-employed unincorporated businesses affects the size of the gap in labour productivity between Canada and the United States. To do so, the business sector in each country is divided into unincorporated and corporate businesses, and estimates of labour...

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Relative Multifactor Productivity Levels in Canada and the United States : A Sectoral Analysis

Baldwin, John R. - 2009

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative to that of the United States for the 1994-to-2003 period. Second, it examines the relative importance of differences in capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour...

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Long-Term Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States

Baldwin, John R. - 2009

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....

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Revisions to Canada and United States Annual Estimates of Labour Productivity in the Business Sector, 2003 to 2006

Maynard, Jean-Pierre - 2009

This paper examines the impact of the revisions to labour productivity estimates and related variables covering the revision cycle of the National Accounts from 2003 to 2006 for Canada and from 2004 to 2006 for the United States

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The Comparative Level of GDP Per Capita in Canada and the United States : A Decomposition into Labour Productivity and Work Intensity Differences

Maynard, Jean-Pierre - 2009

This study is the third in a series related to the project launched in the fall of 2003 by the Canadian Productivity Accounts of Statistics Canada in order to compare productivity levels between Canada and the United States. The study's purpose is to examine the comparability of the components...

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International sectoral spillovers: An empircal analysis for German and US Industries

Smolny, Werner - 1995

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs

Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - 2007

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...

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International sectoral spillovers : an empircal analysis for German and US Industries

Smolny, Werner - 1995

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The energy paradox of sectoral change and the future prospects of the service economy

Gross, Christian; Witt, Ulrich - 2012

Persistently rising energy prices have revived interest in the economic impact of changing energy costs. We explore the effects of these costs on sectoral change, particularly in relation to the rise and future prospects of the "service economy". Following Baumol's cost disease hypothesis,...

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