The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the … living standards and productivity and that the productivity gap is the main factor behind the living standard gap. …

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 …