The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … of productivity growth in the United States after 1995 was responsible for our relative deterioration in living standards …

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 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 …

levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the … living standards and productivity and that the productivity gap is the main factor behind the living standard gap. …

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 …