. 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 …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … institutional changes such as product and labour market deregulation have served as catalysts for growth. He then looks at the role … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …

capital accumulation on productivity growth in Canada, differences between Gross Domestic Product and Net Domestic Product …, future productivity growth in Canada, and the OECD growth study. …This seventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …

the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …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 …

eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada … living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa …

productivity growth in Canada; the contribution of ICT-producing and using industries to productivity growth in Canada, the United …This sixth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains seven articles. Topics covered are lessons for Canada from the U.S. growth resurgence; the factors explaining higher …

other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a … phenomenon not observed elsewhere; divergences in productivity growth performance are not due to different measurement techniques … States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited …

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 …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

This article addresses the question of why productivity growth in Indian manufacturing was slow in the pre …-reform period and analyzes how economic reforms in the 1990s accelerated productivity growth. The answer lies in two subtle but … important distortion-inefficiency mechanisms, which affected productivity growth by distorting intermediate input allocation …