attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …

-level total factor productivity growth volatility exhibited a similar pattern. We hypothesize that firm heterogeneity, reflected …

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 …

composition) and a residual (multifactor productivity growth). The first two components (both arising from investment, one in …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 …