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Book Synopsis Essays on Canada-US Productivity in Manufacturing by : Jiang Li
Download or read book Essays on Canada-US Productivity in Manufacturing written by Jiang Li and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada and the US are highly integrated economies and yet persistent productivity gaps exist between them. This raises the question whether there is a relationship in productivity between Canada and the US, and if so, what industry-specific characteristics are important. This dissertation focuses on the manufacturing sector and its component three-digit industries. The first chapter investigates the interdependence of labour productivity (LP) between the two countries. It finds no evidence of long-run convergence of US and Canadian LP. There is, however, some evidence of short-run dependence within industries. Regarding industry characteristics, only industry-specific export intensity is found to be an important channel for the long-run productivity transmission.The second chapter develops measures of total factor productivity (TFP) that are comparable across Canada and the US. The third chapter investigates the interdependence of TFP between the countries. As with LP, there is no evidence of long-run convergence. In both the short and long run, the dependence of Canadian manufacturing industries upon their US counterparts is limited and non-uniform. The fourth chapter examines industry-specific characteristics. Export, import and foreign direct investment (FDI) intensities are found to be important channels in the short run for technology diffusion from the US. Surprisingly, a higher research and development intensity reduces short-run technology diffusion. In the long run, export and FDI intensities are shown to contribute to technology diffusion.
Author :Dale Weldeau Jorgenson Publisher :Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations ISBN 13 :9780662653493 Total Pages :596 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (534 download)
Book Synopsis Industry-level Productivity and International Competitiveness Between Canada and the United States by : Dale Weldeau Jorgenson
Download or read book Industry-level Productivity and International Competitiveness Between Canada and the United States written by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 2001 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Productivity Issues in Canada by : Canada. Industry Canada
Download or read book Productivity Issues in Canada written by Canada. Industry Canada and published by Calgary : University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of research papers that explains Canada's relatively weak productivity record over the last few decades and the nature of productivity growth in Canada. The book covers a wide range of topics, including productivity trends and determinants, innovation, investment, global linkages, productivity in the new economy, and the social aspects of productivity. Includes in-depth and detailed papers by experts in Canadian economics, policy, trade etc.
Book Synopsis Incomes and Productivity in North America by : Labor Secretariat of the Commission
Download or read book Incomes and Productivity in North America written by Labor Secretariat of the Commission and published by Bernan Press(PA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers and discussions representing the views top-level economists from NAFTA countries, from a recent seminar at which labor, business, and academic leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the US debated the impact of international trade on competitiveness and labor relations in their countries. Reports cover both country-specific economic histories and current labor market development. Includes many charts and graphs. This publication is also available in Spanish and French. Of interest to potential investors, students, and economists. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis The Trend to Smaller Producers in Manufacturing : a Canada by : Baldwin, John R. (John Russel)
Download or read book The Trend to Smaller Producers in Manufacturing : a Canada written by Baldwin, John R. (John Russel) and published by Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :John Russel Baldwin Publisher :Toronto; Ottawa : University of Toronto Press; Supply and Services Canada 1986. ISBN 13 : Total Pages :356 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Role of Scale in Canada/U.S. Productivity Differences in the Manufacturing Sector, 1970-1979 by : John Russel Baldwin
Download or read book The Role of Scale in Canada/U.S. Productivity Differences in the Manufacturing Sector, 1970-1979 written by John Russel Baldwin and published by Toronto; Ottawa : University of Toronto Press; Supply and Services Canada 1986.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding the reason for the productivity differences between Canadian and U.S. manufacturing industries is important if a sound industrial strategy is to be followed in the next decade. This is particularly the case if Canada implements its policy of closer economic ties with the United States - either in the form of the previous Trudeau Administration's sectoral free trade approach or the present Mulroney Administration's attempt to enhance access of Canadian goods to the United States."--
Book Synopsis Three Essays on the Measurement of Productivity by : Jakir Hussain
Download or read book Three Essays on the Measurement of Productivity written by Jakir Hussain and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doctoral thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay I investigate the presence of productivity convergence in eight regional pulp and paper industries of U.S. and Canada over the period of 1971-2005. Expectation of productivity convergence in the pulp and paper industries of Canadian provinces and of the states of its southern neighbour is high since they are trading partners with fairly high level of exchanges in both pulp and paper products. Moreover, they share a common production technology that changed very little over the last century. I supplement the North-American regional data with national data for two Nordic countries, Finland and Sweden, which provides a scope to compare the productivity performances of four leading players in global pulp and paper industry. I find evidence in favour of the catch-up hypothesis among the regional pulp and paper industries of U.S. and Canada in my sample. The growth performance is at the advantage of Canadian provinces relative to their U.S. counterparts. However, it is not good enough to surpass the growth rates of this industry in the two Nordic countries. It is well-known that econometric productivity estimation using flexible functional forms often encounter violations of curvature conditions. However, the productivity literature does not provide any guidance on the selection of appropriate functional forms once they satisfy the theoretical regularity conditions. The second chapter of my thesis provides an empirical evidence that imposing local curvature conditions on the flexible functional forms affect total factor productivity (TFP) estimates in addition to the elasticity estimates. Moreover, I use this as a criterion for evaluating the performances of three widely used locally flexible cost functional forms - the translog (TL), the Generalized Leontief (GL), and the Normalized Quadratic (NQ) - in providing TFP estimates. Results suggest that the NQ model performs better than the other two functional forms in providing TFP estimates. The third essay capitalizes on newly available high frequency energy consumption data from commercial buildings in the District of Columbia (DC) to provide novel insights on the realized energy use impacts of energy efficiency standards in commercial buildings. Combining these data with hourly weather data and information on tenancy contract structure I evaluate the impacts of energy standards, contractual structure of utility bill payments, and energy star labeling on account level electricity consumption. Using this unique panel dataset, the analysis takes advantage of detailed building-level characteristics and the heterogeneity in the building age distribution, resulting in buildings constructed before and after mandatory energy standards came into effect. Estimation results suggest that in commercial buildings constructed under a code, electricity consumption is lower by about 0.48 kWh per cooling degree hour. When tenants pay for their own utilities, consumption is lower by 0.82 kWh per cooling degree hour. The Energy Star effect is a 0.31 kWh reduction per cooling degree hour. Finally, peak savings for all three variables of interest occur at 2pm in the summer months, whereas peak summer marginal prices at DC's local electric utility occur at 5pm.
Book Synopsis Production and Productivity in the Service Industries by : Victor R. Fuchs
Download or read book Production and Productivity in the Service Industries written by Victor R. Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report on a meeting to examine factors affecting production and productivity in the service sector in Canada and the USA - includes papers and records of discussions on the use of statistical method in measuring the contribution of services to the gross national product, theoretical aspects of input output, health services, banks, the retail trade, labour productivity, etc. Statistical tables. Conference held in Ottawa 1967 October.
Book Synopsis A Frontier Approach to Canada-U.S. Multifactor Productivity Performance by : Statistics Canada. Micro-Economic Analysis Division
Download or read book A Frontier Approach to Canada-U.S. Multifactor Productivity Performance written by Statistics Canada. Micro-Economic Analysis Division and published by Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores an alternate experimental measure of multifactor productivity growth based on the production frontier, a method that benchmarks observed units (firms or industries) against an estimated best-practice production frontier. This estimated frontier specifies the maximum possible output that can be produced from different combinations of inputs, based on the observed input-output mixes of sampled industries or firms. Benchmarking each unit against such a frontier generates a relative measure of its efficiency compared to what is theoretically possible by following best practice. This measure is based on distance from the estimated production frontier.
Author :Canada. Department of Industry. Economic Research and Policy Analysis Branch Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (19 download)
Book Synopsis Do Very Large Producers Contribute to the Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap? by : Canada. Department of Industry. Economic Research and Policy Analysis Branch
Download or read book Do Very Large Producers Contribute to the Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap? written by Canada. Department of Industry. Economic Research and Policy Analysis Branch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Productivity Differential Between the Canadian and U.S. Manufacturing Sectors by : John Russel Baldwin
Download or read book The Productivity Differential Between the Canadian and U.S. Manufacturing Sectors written by John Russel Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper examines differences in output per worker in the manufacturing sectors of Canada and the United States in 1929 and the extent to which it arises from efficiency differences. It makes corrections for differences in capital and materials intensity per worker in order to derive a measure of total factor efficiency of Canada relative to the United States, using detailed industry data. It finds that while output per worker in Canada was only about 75% of the United States productivity level, the total factor productivity measure of Canada was about the same as the United States level--that is, there was very little difference in technical efficiency in the two countries. Canada's lower output per worker was the result of the use of less capital and materials per worker than the United States."--Document.
Book Synopsis Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing by : John Russel Baldwin
Download or read book Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing written by John Russel Baldwin and published by Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper outlines the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and exited the Canadian manufacturing sector during the three periods: 1973-1979, 1979-1988 and 1988-1997. It also examines the contribution of plant turnover to labour productivity growth in the manufacturing sector over the three periods. Plant turnover makes a significant contribution to productivity growth as more productive entrants replace exiting plants that are less productive. A disproportionately large fraction of the contribution of plant turnover to productivity growth is due to multi-plant or foreign-controlled firms closing down and opening up new plants. The plants opened up by multi-plant or foreign-controlled firms are typically much more productive than those opened by single-plant or domestic-controlled.
Book Synopsis Sessional Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sessional Papers by : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling by : P. Simin Pulat
Download or read book Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling written by P. Simin Pulat and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: This festschrift is devoted to recognize the career of a man who not only witnessed the growth of operations research from its inception, but also contributed significantly to this growth. Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby received his doctorate degree from Cornell University in 1958, and since then, his scholarly contributions have enriched the fields of production planning and scheduling and project scheduling. This collection of papers is contributed in his honor by his students, colleagues, and acquaintances. It offers a tribute to the inspiration received from his work, and from his guidance and advice over the years, and recognizes the legacy of his many contributions. Dr. Elmaghraby is a pioneer in the area of project scheduling (in particular, project planning and control through network models, for which he coined the term ‘activity networks’.) In his initial work in this area, he developed an algebra based on signal flow graphs and semi-Markov processes for analyzing generalized activity networks involving activities with probabilistic durations. This work led to the development of what was later known as the Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT), and GERT simulation models. He has made fundamental contributions in determining criticality indices for activities, in developing methodologies for project compression and time/cost analysis, and in the use of stochastic and chance-constrained programming and Petri Nets for the analysis of activity networks. This volume brings together fourteen contributions, which can be viewed under the following three main themes: operations research and its application in production planning; project scheduling, and production scheduling, inspired by, and in many cases based on, Dr. Elmaghraby’s work in these areas. The first five chapters are devoted to the first theme, followed by four chapters each devoted to the other two, respectively. An additional chapter is devoted to the vulnerability of multimodal freight systems.
Book Synopsis Sessional Papers by : Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Ontario. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
