analyze total factor productivity and technical efficiency in a large sample of Nicaraguan manufacturing firms. Our analysis … expected positive effects on sources of growth such as total factor productivity and technical efficiency could be so slow that …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … in manufacturing as a result of the increase in excess capacity, the dramatic increase in the Canada – U.S. exchange rate … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

than the rest of Canada or the United States. This is obviously a cause for concern. Productivity is an important measure …, the higher productivity growth in retail and wholesale trade in the rest of Canada was associated with growth in sales …Ontario's private sector has had zero productivity growth in the latest six year period. Ontario performed much worse …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both … sector in the United States relative to that in Canada. They note that the Canada-U.S. productivity gap could widen in the …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … greatly exceeded that recorded in Canada. Output per hour in Canada fell 20 percentage points from 87 per cent of the US level … in 1994 to 67 per cent in 2001. This development has been responsible for most of the widening of the aggregate Canada …

Using firm-level data from the 1986 Census of Manufactures of Taiwan, the authors examine the links between technical …

, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) and the USA, the world productivity leader in manufacturing. The comparison of manufacturing …

behavior of the primal and dual productivity residuals by allowing for increasing returns and imperfect competition. We find …

The paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market …