The Sources of Productivity Growth in Canada

K. Carlaw and Stephen Kosempel

Working Papers from University of Guelph, Department of Economics and Finance

Abstract: A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada and to quantify their importance. The model also provides procedures for constructing various economic time series. We find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to periods of high investment-specific technological change or high rates of technology embodiment.

Keywords: TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INVESTMENTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 O33 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2000, Revised 2003
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Published in Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2004, Vol. 13(4), 299-309.

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