A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …

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 …

argues that a structural measure of labour productivity, closer to a measure of technical efficiency, would take into account …Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries … employment rate and hours of work in terms of productivity and that once these effects are taken into account, the United States …

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 …

the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an … highest level of GDP per capita in the OECD area; the gap between the aggregate productivity level in the United States and in … other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a …

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 … productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have …

productivity trends; the measurement of productivity growth in services industries; and a review article of a recent book, Why …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 …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

productivity level comparisons are much more complex, requiring comparable industry data and estimates of purchasing power at a … detailed industry level. The International Comparisons of Output and Productivity (ICOP) project established at the University …International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International …