A Detailed Analysis of the Productivity Performance of Canadian
... trends in a given sector through regulation as well as investments in public infrastructure. Investments in public infrastructure lower production costs for food manufacturers, but public investment is an exogenous variable from the firm’s perspective. Public capital stock has increased at half the ...
... trends in a given sector through regulation as well as investments in public infrastructure. Investments in public infrastructure lower production costs for food manufacturers, but public investment is an exogenous variable from the firm’s perspective. Public capital stock has increased at half the ...
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... a. If I study, I must give up going to the football game. b. If I buy a computer, I must do without a 35" television. c. More consumer spending now means more spending in the future. d. If I spend more on clothes, I must spend less on food. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Easy STA: DISC: Scarcity, tradeoffs, and ...
... a. If I study, I must give up going to the football game. b. If I buy a computer, I must do without a 35" television. c. More consumer spending now means more spending in the future. d. If I spend more on clothes, I must spend less on food. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: Easy STA: DISC: Scarcity, tradeoffs, and ...
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy,
... speci…c productivity increase in a tradable industry. To study a regional shock that a¤ects all sectors, we study the increases in productivity across industries in North Dakota associated with the shale oil boom. We also study the disruptions in the Finance and Real State industries in New York du ...
... speci…c productivity increase in a tradable industry. To study a regional shock that a¤ects all sectors, we study the increases in productivity across industries in North Dakota associated with the shale oil boom. We also study the disruptions in the Finance and Real State industries in New York du ...
Wp 55 Storm The New Normal - Institute for New Economic Thinking
... In line with all this, recent evidence suggests that the ‘American dream’ of inter-generational progress has begun to fade: children’s prospects of earning more than their parents has fallen from 95% for children born in 1940 to less than 50% for children born in the early 1980s (Chetty et al. 2016 ...
... In line with all this, recent evidence suggests that the ‘American dream’ of inter-generational progress has begun to fade: children’s prospects of earning more than their parents has fallen from 95% for children born in 1940 to less than 50% for children born in the early 1980s (Chetty et al. 2016 ...
The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the
... prising land and structures. As emphasized by Blanchard and Katz (1992), labor is allowed to move across both regions and sectors. Land and structures can be used by any sector but are …xed locally. Sectors are interconnected by way of input-output linkages but, in contrast to Long and Plosser (198 ...
... prising land and structures. As emphasized by Blanchard and Katz (1992), labor is allowed to move across both regions and sectors. Land and structures can be used by any sector but are …xed locally. Sectors are interconnected by way of input-output linkages but, in contrast to Long and Plosser (198 ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
... …rms that open foreign a¢ liates are still larger and more productive than …rms that only export (Tomiura, 2007). A well-developed body of theory explains these phenomena as the sorting of heterogeneous …rms into modes of foreign market access.1 In this paper, we investigate how well a model of …rm ...
... …rms that open foreign a¢ liates are still larger and more productive than …rms that only export (Tomiura, 2007). A well-developed body of theory explains these phenomena as the sorting of heterogeneous …rms into modes of foreign market access.1 In this paper, we investigate how well a model of …rm ...
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... per man in every period. It is noteworthy that the sector that has been declining most rapidly in relative importance, as measured by either output or employment, should have achieved the greatest gains in output per man. Most studies of the relationship between growth and productivity, to be discus ...
... per man in every period. It is noteworthy that the sector that has been declining most rapidly in relative importance, as measured by either output or employment, should have achieved the greatest gains in output per man. Most studies of the relationship between growth and productivity, to be discus ...
Measuring construction industry productivity and performance
... Traditional measures of productivity, including labour, capital and multi-factor productivity suggest that there has been practically no growth in construction productivity in the last 20 years. There are many possible reasons for this, including failure to pass on price increases, the mix of what i ...
... Traditional measures of productivity, including labour, capital and multi-factor productivity suggest that there has been practically no growth in construction productivity in the last 20 years. There are many possible reasons for this, including failure to pass on price increases, the mix of what i ...
The Global Productivity Distribution and Ricardian Comparative
... from Ricardo (1817). More recently, important theoretical advances have shown how Ricardo’s insight can be formalized when there are more than two industries (Dornbusch, Fischer and Samuelson 1977) and in an economy with many countries (Eaton and Kortum 2002). Contemporary formulations of the theory ...
... from Ricardo (1817). More recently, important theoretical advances have shown how Ricardo’s insight can be formalized when there are more than two industries (Dornbusch, Fischer and Samuelson 1977) and in an economy with many countries (Eaton and Kortum 2002). Contemporary formulations of the theory ...
Employment, productivity and output growth
... Robust as some of the facts may be, their theoretical interpretation remains highly controversial in business-cycle theory. Here again, the issue is causation. Proponents of the Real Business Cycle theory hold that fluctuations in both productivity and employment are driven mainly by technological s ...
... Robust as some of the facts may be, their theoretical interpretation remains highly controversial in business-cycle theory. Here again, the issue is causation. Proponents of the Real Business Cycle theory hold that fluctuations in both productivity and employment are driven mainly by technological s ...
SECOND GENERATION INNOVATION
... β t , is allowed to vary over time in Eq. (8), and is computed as the share of agriculture in total GDP. Annual data in the period 1620-2006 are used in the cointegration analysis. However, cointegration tests are necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for secondgeneration growth models to be con ...
... β t , is allowed to vary over time in Eq. (8), and is computed as the share of agriculture in total GDP. Annual data in the period 1620-2006 are used in the cointegration analysis. However, cointegration tests are necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for secondgeneration growth models to be con ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INCOME DISPERSION AND COUNTER-CYCLICAL MARKUPS Chris Edmond Laura Veldkamp
... to the level of consumption dispersion documented in Krueger and Perri (2005). Omitting capital hurts the performance of the model by making aggregates too correlated with GDP. A number of other mechanisms can generate counter-cyclical markups. One possibility is that sticky prices and pro-cyclical ...
... to the level of consumption dispersion documented in Krueger and Perri (2005). Omitting capital hurts the performance of the model by making aggregates too correlated with GDP. A number of other mechanisms can generate counter-cyclical markups. One possibility is that sticky prices and pro-cyclical ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A THEORY OF DEMAND SHOCKS Guido Lorenzoni
... aggregate level of productivity. The model features households of consumers-producers and monopolistic competition. Each period, the household sets the price of his own good and the consumer travels to the other islands to buy the goods produced there. As households accumulate price and quantity sig ...
... aggregate level of productivity. The model features households of consumers-producers and monopolistic competition. Each period, the household sets the price of his own good and the consumer travels to the other islands to buy the goods produced there. As households accumulate price and quantity sig ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRODUCTIVITY, EXTERNAL BALANCE AND
... Overall, our baseline VAR results square well with standard models’predictions on the international transmission along many dimensions: as a general pattern, positive productivity shocks in each of the countries in our sample raise domestic manufacturing output and aggregate consumption relative to ...
... Overall, our baseline VAR results square well with standard models’predictions on the international transmission along many dimensions: as a general pattern, positive productivity shocks in each of the countries in our sample raise domestic manufacturing output and aggregate consumption relative to ...
Canada–United States Labour Productivity Gap
... accounts for part of the gap in productivity levels between Canada and the United States. Generally, larger firms are more productive than small firms, and shifts in the firm size distribution toward larger firms might be expected to have a favorable impact on overall Canadian productivity. Producti ...
... accounts for part of the gap in productivity levels between Canada and the United States. Generally, larger firms are more productive than small firms, and shifts in the firm size distribution toward larger firms might be expected to have a favorable impact on overall Canadian productivity. Producti ...
Executive Summary
... Over the past two years, we have been conducting a research program on automation technologies and their potential effects. Some of our key findings include the following. We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work act ...
... Over the past two years, we have been conducting a research program on automation technologies and their potential effects. Some of our key findings include the following. We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work act ...
Executive Summary
... Over the past two years, we have been conducting a research program on automation technologies and their potential effects. Some of our key findings include the following. We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work act ...
... Over the past two years, we have been conducting a research program on automation technologies and their potential effects. Some of our key findings include the following. We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work act ...
a future that works: automation, employment, and
... Over the past two years, we have been conducting a research program on automation technologies and their potential effects. Some of our key findings include the following. We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work act ...
... Over the past two years, we have been conducting a research program on automation technologies and their potential effects. Some of our key findings include the following. We are living in a new automation age in which robots and computers can not only perform a range of routine physical work act ...
Agricultural Risk, Intermediate Inputs, and Cross
... sectoral intermediate input share and income does not exist in other sectors, suggesting that it may be an important margin for understanding why the agricultural sector exhibits significantly lower labor productivity than the nonagricultural sector in developing countries. The goal of this paper is ...
... sectoral intermediate input share and income does not exist in other sectors, suggesting that it may be an important margin for understanding why the agricultural sector exhibits significantly lower labor productivity than the nonagricultural sector in developing countries. The goal of this paper is ...
Productivity Statistics: 1978–2015
... Contribution of capital deepening: the growth in the capital-to-labour ratio, weighted by capital’s share of total income. Given that capital’s share of total income is always less than 100 percent, the contribution of capital deepening is always less than the growth in capital deepening. It is used ...
... Contribution of capital deepening: the growth in the capital-to-labour ratio, weighted by capital’s share of total income. Given that capital’s share of total income is always less than 100 percent, the contribution of capital deepening is always less than the growth in capital deepening. It is used ...
Distribution, aggregate demand and productivity growth: theory and
... demand and capital accumulation may be either wage-led or profit-led in the medium to long run, also within a Kaleckian demand-driven distribution and growth model, has increasingly inspired empirical research on the relationship between functional income distribution and aggregate demand, respectiv ...
... demand and capital accumulation may be either wage-led or profit-led in the medium to long run, also within a Kaleckian demand-driven distribution and growth model, has increasingly inspired empirical research on the relationship between functional income distribution and aggregate demand, respectiv ...
impact of major farm inputs on productivity of sugarcane
... were used to collect primarily data from sugarcane growers of the Tehsil Kot Addu of Punjab, main sugarcane cultivating province of Pakistan. A field survey method was chosen because it is convenient and can collect wide range of information required for this study. Many issues can be examined by me ...
... were used to collect primarily data from sugarcane growers of the Tehsil Kot Addu of Punjab, main sugarcane cultivating province of Pakistan. A field survey method was chosen because it is convenient and can collect wide range of information required for this study. Many issues can be examined by me ...
Natural Capital, Sustainability and Productivity
... (they do not have substitutes) and that stocks of these resources must be kept intact to ensure continued production. The challenge is to discover what forms of natural capital are essential and how to sustain the stocks necessary to ensure non-decreasing production, consumption and, hence, human su ...
... (they do not have substitutes) and that stocks of these resources must be kept intact to ensure continued production. The challenge is to discover what forms of natural capital are essential and how to sustain the stocks necessary to ensure non-decreasing production, consumption and, hence, human su ...