' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We … important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications …

the drop in private economy productivity growth between 1990-2000 and 2010-2016, though it accounted for less than 20% of … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … does not fall as fast as productivity does. A dynamic model of labor quality and quantity choice by plants is estimated to … assess the costs of altering labor quality and quantity over the plant life-cycle. …

tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of …

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 …

productivity in the services sector is much lower in Canada. The lower levels of labour productivity and MFP in the Canadian … services sector account for most of the overall productivity level difference between the two countries …This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative …

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 paper explores the impact of globalization on some determinants of per worker labor productivity in U … productivity across small, medium, and high skill workers in U.S. manufacturing industries …