productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …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 …

Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in …

reemerges as the world technology leader as manifested by labour productivity levels. …Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries … than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author …

This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in … (ICTs) on UK productivity growth; the choice of the business sector versus the total economy for assessing aggregate …

employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …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 …

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 …

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 …

productivity in manufacturing. But when the more appropriate output per hour measure of productivity is used, the United States is … no longer the manufacturing productivity leader, being surpassed by the Netherlands and Belgium. The much greater number …International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International …