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 …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … productivity trends that the general public should be aware of are: the post-1973 productivity slowdown; the postwar convergence in … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …

growth, suggesting a productivity convergence to the U.S. level. A faster pace of human capital accumulation relative to the …The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth … sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States …

that he developed throughout the decade. While not denying that the US economic slowdown in the early 1990s reduced growth …

monetary policy in the early 1990s hurt growth in the short-term, but they argue that such action was necessary to ratchet down …

. One approach sees economic growth leading to environmental degradation by imposing stresses on limited natural resources …. Economic growth, once a certain level is achieved, leads to a cleaner environment as the higher income shifts societal …. In addition, it is argued that economic growth is increasingly service-based, decoupling pollution from economic activity …

in which program spending was frozen in nominal terms, but not cut, would have produced more growth and employment and …