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Recent Productivity Developments in the World Economy: An Overview from The Conference Board Total Economy Database
Chen, Vivian; Gupta, Abhay; Therrien, Andre; Levanon, Gad; … - In: International Productivity Monitor 19 (2010) Spring, pp. 3-19
economies use labour and capital in productive economic activity. …
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Insights into Canada’s Abysmal Post-2000 Productivity Performance from Decompositions of Labour Productivity Growth by Industry and Province
Sharpe, Andrew; Thomson, Eric - In: International Productivity Monitor 20 (2010) Fall, pp. 48-67
The Centre for the Study of Living Standards has released new estimates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity …
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The Challenge of Total Factor Productivity
Diewert, Erwin - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 45-52
In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Erwin Diewert of the University of British Columbia provides a comprehensive discussion of what is needed to develop reliable measures of total factor productivity in terms of output and the different classes of inputs. He...
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The Irish Economic Boom: What Can We Learn?
Fortin, Pierre - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 19-31
The economic success story of the 1990s has been Ireland, with GDP per capita nearly doubling over the decade. In this article Pierre Fortin from the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research provides a detailed examination of the factors behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518962
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Productivity and Policy Reform in Australia
Parham, Dean - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 53-63
increased multifactor productivity growth, not capital deepening, that drove this acceleration. Parham makes the case that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518963
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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered in Terms of Productivity Growth?
Card, David; Freeman, Richard B. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 41-52
standard macro-economic changes in labour or capital. They note that economic reforms were more important in the UK than in …
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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 52-68
productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518983
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The OECD Productivity Manual: A Guide to the Measurement of Industry-Level and Aggregate Productivity
Schreyer, Paul - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 37-51
goods in price indices; methods of capturing the skill composition of labour; measurement of capital input; and the … difficult-to-measure services industries; better data on hours worked by industry; improvement in the quality of data on capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518991
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Why are Americans More Productive than Canadians?
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 19-37
reflects Canada's lower capital intensity of production, an innovation gap manifested by lower R&D expenditure, a smaller and … less dynamic high tech sector, less developed human capital at the top end of the labour market, and more limited economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481856
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What Have We Learned About Productivity in the Last Two Decades?: A Review Article on New Developments in Productivity Analysis
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 53-63
development of firm-level micro-data bases, the revival of the vintage capital or embodiment approach to productivity analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157595