The marked acceleration of Finnish productivity growth since the mid-1980s is attributable to intensifying creative …

low level of total factor productivity (TFP) and slow TFP growth account for the region's large and growing income gaps …

of the ten Canadian provinces over the 1997-2007 period. Level and growth rate estimates of labour and multifactor … estimates are also presented. Capital intensity and labour quality figures are also provided, and a standard growth accounting … framework is used to determine the sources of labour productivity growth, as well as the sources of labour productivity level …

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … increased in Canada and conclude that in fact it has. If correct, this is indeed a very positive development for Canadians. They …

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

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity … growth was similar in Canada and the Europe, but only half that in the United State. In terms of the contribution of ICT …

the U.S. Services Sector: New Sources of Economic Growth", by Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth from the Brookings …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … of productivity growth in the United States after 1995 was responsible for our relative deterioration in living standards …

acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy …