Lagging productivity growth: Ceauses and remedies /
Edited by Shlomo Maital, Noah M. Meltz ; contributors Hugh J. Arnold, Orley Ashenfelter, Donald J. Daly, Martin G. Evans, Randall K. Filer, Robert J. House, Charles Hulten, John W. Kendrick, John B. Kervin, Harvey Leibenstein, Jerome A. Mark, Mieko Nishimizu, John R. Norsworthy, Sylvia Ostry, P.S. Rao, Albert Rees, Frank Reid, John Vanderkamp and Leonard Waverman.
- Cambridge, Mass : Ballinger, 1980.
- 303 páginas : ilustradas con tablas y gráficos ; 23 cm.
List of figures, ix -- List of tables, xi -- Preface, xv -- Acknowledgments, xvii -- Introduction. On interpreting productivity change / Part I: Trends, 7 -- Chapter 1. Productivity trends in the United States / Chapter 2. Productivity trends in Canada / Chapter 3. The importance of productivity change in the economic growth of nine industrialized countries / Chapter 4. The downturn in productivity growth: a new look at its nature and causes / Part III: New approaches, 129 -- Chapter 5. Productivity: a psychological perspective / Chapter 6. X-efficiency, intrafirm behavior, and growth / Part IV: Remedies 221 Chapter 7. Remedies for increasing productivity levels in Canada / Chapter 8. Remedies for the productivity slowdown in the united states / Summary and conclusions / Bibliography, 275 -- Index, 295 -- About the editors, 301 -- Participants, 303. Albert Rees, 1 -- John W. Kendrick ; comment: Jerome A. Mark and John R. Norsuiorthy, 9 -- Sylvia Ostry and P.S. Rao ; comment: Noah M. Meltz , 39 Part II: Causes and effects, 83 -- Charles R. Hulten and Mieko Nishimizu ; comment: Orley Ashenfelter and Frank Reid, 85 -- Randall k. Filer ; comment: Leonard Wauerman, 109 -- Hugh J. Arnold, Martin G. Evans and Robert J. House ; comment: John Kervin and Shlomo Maital, 131 -- Harvey Leibenstein ; comment: Donald J. Daly, 199 -- Donald j. Daly ; comment: John Vanderkamp and Mieko Nishimizu, 223 -- John W. Kendrick 247 -- Shlomo Maital and Noah M. Meltz, 265 --