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The Comparative Level of GDP Per Capita in Canada and the United States : A Decomposition into Labour Productivity and Work Intensity Differences

Maynard, Jean-Pierre - 2009

This study is the third in a series related to the project launched in the fall of 2003 by the Canadian Productivity Accounts of Statistics Canada in order to compare productivity levels between Canada and the United States. The study's purpose is to examine the comparability of the components...

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Contribution of human capital accumulation to Canadian economic growth

Bowlus, Audra J.; Park, Youngmin; Robinson, Chris - 2022

This paper quantifies the contribution of human capital accumulation to the growth of real gross domestic product (GDP) in Canada. GDP growth is decomposed into contributions from physical capital, hours worked, human capital supplied per hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot"...

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The Rule and the Exception: Italy’s Regional Imbalances (1891-2001) through a Shift-Share Analysis

Felice, Emanuele - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2011) 4

of southern Italy, whose convergence during the economic miracle came to a halt in the 1970s. …

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Social Policy and Productivity: Anybody Here See Any Levers?

Watson, William - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, William Watson challenges Heath's interpretation of the benefits of productivity growth, but agrees with Richard Harris' views on the state of our knowledge about the potential contribution of social programs to productivity growth. Watson tackles Heath's assessment of the...

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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?

Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...

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Social Divergence and Productivity: Making a Connection

Grafton, R. Quentin; Knowles, Stephen; Owen, P. Dorian - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Quentin Grafton, Stephen Knowles and Dorian Owen examine the implications for productivity arising from the level of social diversity along a variety of dimensions, including ethnic, linguistic and religious differences and inequalities between rich and poor. Their basic...

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International comparisons of sectoral energy- and labour-productivity performance : stylised facts and decomposition of trends

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004

This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over the period 1970-1997. A cross-country decomposition...

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Decoupling economic growth and energy use : an empirical cross-country analysis for 10 manufacturing sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...

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Sectoral energy- and labour-productivity convergence

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level … for 14 OECD countries, covering the period 1970-1997. A fã-convergence analysis shows that the development of cross …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence …

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Decoupling Economic Growth and Energy Use. An Empirical Cross-Country Analysis for 10 Manufacturing Sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

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