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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …

, labour and capital inputs, and labour, capital and total factor productivity (TFP) in Asian countries since 1980. The author …s was largely unsustainable since it had been due more to growth in factor inputs than in productivity. However, once … the author adjusts for labour quality, capital quality and shifts in employment and capital to high-productivity sectors …

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 …

This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower … employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …