Leonard Waverman

Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Canada, Japan and the United States, 1953-1986: Was the 'Productivity Slowdown' Reversed?

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth and trends in relative efficiency levels in the national Two-Digit Manufacturing industries of Japan, Canada, and the United States during the last quarter-century. The well-known slowdown in productivity growth rates in the 1973-80 period was a common phenomenon across the three countries but was felt most strongly in Japan and least in Canada. While the 1980s saw a pick-up in productivity growth over the slowdown period, growth in productivity has not returned to the pre-1973 level. The productivity slowdown and any subsequent increase in productivity growth rates have been correlated across industries in the three countries to a very high degree.

Restructuring the global automobile industry : national and regional impacts

Chapter One: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing: The Representative Industry Chris Law Chapter Two: The World Automotive Industry Gerald Bloomfield Chapter Three: New Horizons: The Third World Motor Vehicle Industry in Transition Robert Gwyne Chapter 4: The Transformation of the Japanese Motor Vehicle Industry and its Role in the World: Industrial Restructuring and Technical Evolution Yasuo Miyakawa Chapter 5: The Impact of Japanese Investment in the USA James Rubenstein Chapter 6: Nothing New About Nissan? Philip Garrahan and Paul Stewart Chapter 7: Motor Components: Location Issues in an International Industry David Froggatt Chapter 8: Vertical Integration or Disintegration? The Case of the UK Car Parts Industry Ash Amin and Ian Smith Chapter 9: Restructuring Swedish Manufacturing Industry - The Case of the Motor Vehicle Industry Anders Malmberg Chapter 10: Subcontracting in the Motor Industry: a Case Study of Coventry Mike Rawlinson Chapter 11: Industrial Restructuring and the Labour Force: The Case of Austin Rover in Longbridge, Birmingham Dennis Smith Chapter 12: Policy Implications for the West Midlands in Trends and Changes in the Motor Vehicle and Component Industries David Elliot and Patrick Gray.

Adapting to changing energy prices

This book presents papers on energy economics. Topics considered include the energy resource base of developing countries, investments in energy supply industries, the economy of the OECD, modeling OPEC behavior, the development and use of natural gas resources, oil prices, energy sources, time-of-use pricing, the spot market for oil, the utilization of coal in Alberta, the economics of oil sands, the outloop for synthetic fuels, financing solar repowering, and issues affecting oil-importing countries.