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 … of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …

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 …

This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … productivity for improving living standards and quality of life. We will be publishing twice a year articles from leading … researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a …

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 …

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 …

existing empirical literature suggest that production factors and total factor productivity have had different contributions to … factor productivity growth in the current economic growth of China. They also show that, in spite of the improvements made by … results finally show that during the period from 1978 to 1995, the productivity gains can be partly, but not fully explained …

recent acceleration in real GDP growth reflects both faster input growth as well as rising total factor productivity. However …