-biased technical change for the flattening of productivity growth and effects on hours worked. The results show that more than 60 … percent of the slowdown in productivity growth in Germany since the early 2000s can be explained by the SBTC development …

We estimate the effect of sleep on labor productivity addressing the two main challenges in time use research: the … productivity in a value-added specification. We show that, when work hours are held constant, substituting sleep with other non …-work activities does not affect labor productivity. …

This staff working paper (by Paula Barnes) examines multifactor productivity growth cycles at the industry level in … cycles chosen to examine industry MFP growth can have a considerable effect on the interpretation of industry productivity … performance over time. Growth in productivity is a key determinant of long-term economic growth and hence income growth. As …

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 … job is especially crucial to identifying the origin of the differences in GDP per capita between labour productivity and …

of labour productivity, as well as in the annual measures of multifactor productivity. For this purpose, hours worked are …

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 …

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 …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

This study examines Canadian productivity performance over the period from 1961 to 2005. It investigates labour … productivity growth and the sources of improvements therein - multifactor productivity growth, capital intensity and skill … upgrading. It also examines the contribution that productivity growth has made to economic growth and to the improvement of …