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 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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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