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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. International differences in output,productivity and wages in the automobile industry: the 1950s to themid-1980s; 3. The cost-function approach to the analysis of cost and totalfactor productivity differences; 4. Data base sources and method ofconstruction; 5. Empirical results: estimation of the cost function; 6.Productivity growth in the automobile industry, 1970-1984: a comparison ofthe United States, Japan, Germany and Canada; 7. International comparisons ofautomobile industry cost and productivity levels: Japan, Germany and theUnited States; 8. International comparisons of automobile industry cost andproductivity levels: Canadian with US, Japanese and German production; 9.Summary and conclusions; References; Index.