This 22nd issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. The topics addressed are: a comparative industry perspective on productivity and economic growth in … Europe; a detailed analysis of labour productivity growth in the transportation equipment industry in Canada; a portrait of …

Why did European productivity growth slow down while American growth accelerated since the 1990s? In this article we … Economic Growth in Europe. We argue that Europe’s falling behind is the combined result of a severe productivity slowdown in …

This 21st issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. The topics addressed are: a comparative industry perspective on productivity and economic growth in … Europe; a detailed analysis of labour productivity growth in the transportation equipment industry in Canada; a portrait of …

This article compares the development of labour productivity in the Swedish and the Finnish business sectors and the … productivity level has been converging towards the Swedish level, but that there is still a significant difference. This trend has … coincided with the growing importance of the ICT sector, especially since the mid 1990s. Due to higher productivity and …

students of innovation and labour productivity will find the report to be of great value. …

The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of … the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

. In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Timothy C. Sargent and Edgard R. Rodriquez of … Finance Canada discuss the issue of the choice between labour and total factor productivity. They conclude that both measures … have uses. For periods of less than a decade, labour productivity is the preferred measure, but for longer periods total …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …