highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …

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 article by Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University and the NBER discusses the use of total factor productivity … for price setting in regulated industries. He argues that the longterm, industry-wide productivity experience that is not … subject to strategic manipulation by regulated firms should be the productivity growth rate used to develop the appropriate …

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 …