estimated effect of the growth in the capital-labor ratio on firm productivity is approximately twice as large in Japan than in …We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … firms, in both Japan and the U.S., and relate them to differences in the rates of growth in their capital-labor ratios and …

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 …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …