the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends … reference to measurement issues and technical change; discusses the micro- and macro-economic environment affecting productivity …

A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada … find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to periods of high investment-specific technological change or high … rates of technology embodiment. …

Using cross-sectional firm-level data, this paper examines the determinants of productivity among manufacturing firms … environment in which firms operate in affecting productivity. Of the technological variables, R&D as well as product and process … innovation, licensing of technology, and training of employees fail to have any impact; only foreign ownership, ISO certification …

interest rates. His identification estimates a decomposition of productivity and hours into innovations to technology and non-technology … Taylor rule is the technology shock. In an effort to identify the empirical effects of technology shocks, Gali (1999 …) estimated two models: a bivariate model of productivity and hours and a five-variable model adding money, inflation, and …