Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts …

running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of …

Quebec’s relative growth performance with Ontario has always been an issue of concern for economic historians. In his …, employment and the demographic structure, and finds that faster growth in output per worker in Quebec was the most important … Ontario, up from 83 per cent in 1954. Faster growth in the working age population accounted for 35 per cent of the decline in …

that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

In this chapter, Joseph Heath argues that we tend to overestimate the contribution that further productivity growth … will make to the welfare of Canadians. Traditionally, productivity growth was thought to contribute to increased leisure …, productivity growth has contributed less and less to the well-being of Canadians. The key puzzle for Heath is why further economic …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …