inviter les candidats à postuler, et leur admission dépend de certains critères sélectifs comme l’âge, le niveau d …

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …

Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD … countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database … represents the most comparable productivity estimates that are currently available for cross-OECD comparisons, the authors also …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …

Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always … investments in information technology (IT) in the early 1990s show the largest productivity gains in the late 1990s and that IT … capital investment has a large impact of productivity gains. His evidence also supports the view that the U.S. productivity …

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 …

International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International … 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 …

We estimate the productivity- and wage-returns to firm-provided training in a panel of French Firms. We find positive … and significant returns to training on productivity. For instance, an increase in training intensity by 150 Euros per … worker increases a firms labor productivity by 0.4 %. Moreover, firms benefit from providing training to their workers, since …