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 …

researchers is the impact of these reforms on productivity growth. In this article, Richard B. Freeman of the London School of … trends in productivity growth in Britain and other major developed countries and estimate the impact of British economic …, privatization, profit and share ownership, and self-employment increased UK productivity growth 0.35 per cent per year over the 1979 …