productivity (TFP). We continue this line of work by documenting the importance of TFP differences in explaining cross sectional …

R&D investments on productivity and on the induced innovation hypothesis for both inputs and outputs. The approach …

A primal index of productivity change is introduced which decomposes exactly in three components: technical change … best linear approximation of the Orea (2002) translog productivity index (primal growth accounting). The existing proposals … for the primal productivity index are discussed in detail. An empirical illustration on real data is provided to show the …

. In response to the crisis, these industries dramatically increased productivity. Labor productivity doubled in a few … years (whereas it had changed little in the preceding decade). Materials productivity increased by more than half. Capital … productivity increased as well. I show that most of the productivity gains were due to changes in work practices. Work practice …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … experienced contrasting advances in productivity, in particular as a result of unequal investment in information and communication … technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all …

This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor …

productivity between Canada and the United States. To do so, the business sector in each country is divided into unincorporated and … corporate businesses, and estimates of labour productivity are generated for each sector.The productivity performance of the … two countries are compared, the gap in the level of productivity between Canada and the United States is reduced …

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity …. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …

This paper compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from … Statistics Canada's KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the paper examines productivity growth in … labour productivity growth and multifactor productivity growth than did the aggregate Canadian business sector and had …

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 …