Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …

In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the …

The present literature review is an attempt to gather and summarize the extent of our knowledge of the productivity … trends and levels in the forest products sector. We consider single factor as well as total factor productivity definitions ….The report also synthesizes the findings of the studies along two lines: (1) the overall productivity growth trends in Canada and …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an … productivity levels is in contrast to the typical focus on the gap between productivity growth rates in Canada and the United … that output per hour has always been below that in the United States, the productivity gap has increased in the 1990s …

This Economic Letter summarizes several papers presented at the symposium "The Outlook for Future Productivity Growth …" hosted November 14, 2008, by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including … discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the … production. The measurement of productivity is fraught with conceptual and empirical issues, meaning that there can be a …

first half of the 1990s, has its roots in part in the different labour market and productivity performance of the two … income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common …

has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have … fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …