productivity residuals in the United States and Canada. Using data on 19 manufacturing industries, we study the behavior of … productivity using three proxies for capital services. We find that adjusting for cyclical movements in capital utilization alters … many of the empirical characteristics of productivity, both within and across countries …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

job destruction rate serve to magnify the" effects of productivity shock on output, as well as making the effects much …

inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid … the Taiwanese Census of Manufactures for 1981, 1986, and 1991, we measure differences in total factor productivity among … entering, exiting, and continuing firms, and quantify the contribution of firm turnover to industry productivity improvements …

The evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian currencies is examined … relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Only when augmenting the … productivity variables, as well as other demand side factors, are less encouraging, except for a small subset of countries …

Using data for the G7 countries, I estimate conditional correlations of employment and productivity, based on a …) technology shocks appear to induce a negative comovement between productivity and employment, counterbalanced by a positive … positive technology shock, and (c) measured productivity increases temporarily in response to a positive demand shock. More …