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Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second … article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth … experienced in the United States in the past two years is most likely evidence of a post- 2000 productivity growth acceleration …
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A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …
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Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector … large productivity gains in a wide range of service industries. …
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The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …
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This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in … (ICTs) on UK productivity growth; the choice of the business sector versus the total economy for assessing aggregate …
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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 … the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …
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This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … productivity for improving living standards and quality of life. We will be publishing twice a year articles from leading … researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a …
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It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment...
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Puzzles intrigue and motivate researchers and focus research effort, and the productivity area is fortunate in having … and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … other countries. In terms of the international puzzles, he considers the causes of the post-1973 productivity slowdown that …
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condition for the full realization of the productivity gains associated with ICT. Using aggegate data, the author finds … in order to benefit from the productivity-augmenting potential of ICT. One implication of this analysis is that despite … the current lull in investment, productivity growth in Canada should continue to remain fairly robust as firms continue to …
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