the drop in private economy productivity growth between 1990-2000 and 2010-2016, though it accounted for less than 20% of … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

We build a model of firm entry and exit and show how returns to scale shape firm survival, the equilibrium productivity … and size distributions and firm concentration. High productivity dispersion and high concentration ratios need not reflect … productivity dispersion across establishments. Indeed, industries with lower returns to scale are characterized by higher …

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 …