Canadian Manufacturing, Volume II: A Study in Productivity and Technological Change: Industry Studies, 1946-1977From the back cover: VOLUME 1 outlines the study's methodology and considers the explanations that have been proposed for Canada's productivity showdown. The study's data suggest that the decline is attributable more to outdated caiptal equipment than to the commonly cited "slump" in labour productivity. Author Uri Zohar applies the study's findings to the problem of industrial strategy: since the performance of different industries is highly disparate and subject to rapid change, macroeconomic policy is unlikely to be beneficial to all of them at once. A more specialized policy is needed one that backs "winner" industries identified on the basis of productivity measurements and national choices about social and economic development. VOLUME 2 provides the most extensive time-series studies done to date on manufacturing industries. Performance in each of the nineteen industry groups is studied using four production functions that quantify various factors contributing to productivity, and each industry group is compared against a benchmark average for the entire sector. |
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Food and Beverage Products Industries | 6 |
Tobacco Products Industries | 16 |
Rubber and Plastic Products Industries | 25 |
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1971 constant dollars Actual Value Added AVERAGE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE average level average productivity Capital Intensity 1946-77 capital productivity Capital Stock capital-using technology cent per annum CHANGE IN LABOUR COMPOUNDED ANNUAL RATES COMPOUNDED RATES contribution to productivity decreased Earnings and Labour earnings per hour EARNINGS Total manufacturing economies of scale Elasticity of Substitution factors of production fluctuations growth in capital growth in labour growth in productivity growth in real INDUSTRIES in 1971 industry experienced Knitting Mills labour efficiency Labour Productivity 1946-77 LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY/EARNINGS labour received Labour Share Logarithmic Scale manufacturing sector percentage points PERFORMANCE OF LABOUR post-energy crisis potential output productivity growth productivity of capital rate of decline RATE OF EARNINGS rate of growth RATES OF CHANGE RATIO OF LABOUR Real Hourly Earnings sectoral average Share of Value subperiod SUBSTITUTION AND TECHNOLOGICAL Table Technological Change technology on labour total factor productivity Total Industry total productivity Unit Scale VES production function wood industries