This 13th issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … Canadian flavour. Topics covered are the benchmarking of Canadian economic performance, policies for improving productivity … government output and productivity. …

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 …

-2001 period productivity growth accounted for all the growth in living standards. Large declines in average hours worked reduced … argues, productivity growth represents the only sustained avenue for living standards growth. With our level of aggregate … labour productivity 16 per cent below the US level, Canada has the potential to reduce much of the productivity gap with the …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … whole has performed poorly relative to the total-economy average. Labour productivity in the sector grew by 0.38 per cent …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The …

The economic slowdown of 2001 reduced productivity growth in both the United States and Canada. This development has … raised the question of the sustainability or permanency of the pace of productivity growth experienced during the 1995 …-2000 period in the United States and the likelihood of robust U.S. productivity growth spreading to Canada. In this article …

This review article discusses the volume Ageing, Health and Productivity: The Economics of Increased Life Expectancy …, which provides a detailed examination of the relationship between ageing and productivity. While the authors find some … evidence of a negative effect of ageing on productivity, they conclude that at the aggregate level the effect is small. The …

The 27th issue of the International Productivity Monitor features a symposium on priorities and directions for future … productivity research with five contributions from leading productivity researchers. In addition, the issue includes articles on … the impact of the oil boom on Canada’s labour productivity performance, the contribution of intangible assets to …

The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …

The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …