The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

To encourage invention, society awards inventors exclusive rights through patents. Patent law trades off incentives to …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth … weaker productivity growth. It is estimated that these two factors themselves account for 70 per cent of the widening of the …

&D), which results in higher quality patents, and increased labour productivity …Empirical research on the relationship between innovation and firm level productivity offers conflicting results. We … investigate the impact of innovation on labour productivity through the construction of a unique panel data-set that merges …

This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the … growth of productivity there has been extraordinary despite a less than favorable economic environment and because the U ….S. and Japanese productivity growth experiences over the past fifteen years or so lie at opposite ends of the spectrum of …

This paper analyzes multifactor productivity growth (based on capital, labor, energy, and materials) and labor … productivity growth in the Japanese and U.S. manufacturing sectors. We find that the tests of separability required for a value … productivity …