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 … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …

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 …

; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …

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 …

productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for … Resources for the Future, and Kevin J. Stiroh of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provide a detailed account of this growth …

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 …

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 …