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This paper provides empirical evidence that the size of the spillovers from U.S. monetarypolicy to non-oil GDP growth …
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outlook. An Algebraic Model of the author infers that Productivity of the assisted nations should be with reference to their …
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appears unaffected: investment rates are flat, and productivity has slowed down. We investigate whether measurement issues … labour shares, growth in labour and total factor productivity, and capital deepening. We find (a) MGVA was understated by … productivity and capital deepening has been understated and growth in total factor productivity overstated (e) total factor …
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I propose a new decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity. I model productivity as an index of unmeasured … factors of production, and decompose the conditional factor demand for this index. With this model of productivity, changes in … the price of labor or capital cause substitution to or from productivity. I study whether such changes explain the …
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and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current financial world crisis, hourly labor productivity …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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Official data from statistical agencies are not always ideal for cross-country comparisons because of differences in data sources and methodology. Analysts who engage in cross-country comparisons need to carefully choose among alternatives and sometimes adapt data especially for their purposes....
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This paper exploits the dual accounting technique to uncover multi-factor productivity growth patterns for goods and …, 1980-1997 and 1998-2007. Over both periods, states exhibit a wide range of productivity growth rates with the goods sector … showing much larger variations. The variations are larger for the second time period with some states recording productivity …
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organisational changes and knowledge spillovers. Most recently (in 2006), before the current world crisis, hourly labour productivity …The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …. During the last 25 years, productivity growth has also known contrasted developments in the four countries, in particular as …
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