economic growth, productivity, competitiveness, collective bargaining and industrial policy. Bibliography and statistical …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

contribution of total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in GDP averaged about 32 percent over the period, and this contribution …

Recent contributions to growth theory stress the importance of localized innovation for the performance of more … in agriculture than in manufacturing. Further, a decomposition of labor productivity growth in eight Asian countries for …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

diffusion of innovation and productivity growth. It suggests focusing more on these framework conditions, notably by …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …