This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … experienced contrasting advances in productivity, in particular as a result of unequal investment in information and communication … technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all …

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …. During the last 25 years, productivity growth has also known contrasted developments in the four countries, in particular as … been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in …

productivity (TFP). We continue this line of work by documenting the importance of TFP differences in explaining cross sectional …

and to estimate the contribution of aggregate input growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth to income growth …

I propose a new decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity. I model productivity as an index of unmeasured … factors of production, and decompose the conditional factor demand for this index. With this model of productivity, changes in … the price of labor or capital cause substitution to or from productivity. I study whether such changes explain the …

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 …

This paper exploits the dual accounting technique to uncover multi-factor productivity growth patterns for goods and …, 1980-1997 and 1998-2007. Over both periods, states exhibit a wide range of productivity growth rates with the goods sector … showing much larger variations. The variations are larger for the second time period with some states recording productivity …

on output, inputs and total factor productivity. The analysis provides evidence on the diffusion of intangible investment … slowdown in labour productivity growth has been driven by a decline in TFP growth with relatively a minor role for tangible and …