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 …; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …

productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have …The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with … examines productivity trends in this sector and discusses possible factors behind this situation. He notes that two drivers of …

The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to … the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the … author of the OECD productivity manual provides an overview of the manual. He highlights a number of the key issues addressed …

higher labour productivity levels south of the 49th parallel. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of … Living Standards provides estimates of the size of the gap in aggregate labour productivity between the United States and … using estimates from the establishment survey. Sharpe concludes that the Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity gap …

development of firm-level micro-data bases, the revival of the vintage capital or embodiment approach to productivity analysis …What have we learned about productivity in the past two decades? In this article, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the … Study of Living Standards reviews a recently published NBER volume entitled New Development in Productivity Analysis, edited …

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 …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …

capital accumulation on productivity growth in Canada, differences between Gross Domestic Product and Net Domestic Product …This seventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …, future productivity growth in Canada, and the OECD growth study. …

The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article … detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian … inter-industry differences in productivity levels among manufacturing industries. The authors conclude that Canada could …

This sixth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … productivity levels in the United States than in Canada; patterns in annual work hours in Canada and the United States; trend … productivity growth in Canada; the contribution of ICT-producing and using industries to productivity growth in Canada, the United …