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 …

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 …

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. …

This paper aims at measuring the productivity gap between firms located in six European countries over the period 1996 … added and the productivity are valued from the BACH database that proposes harmonized balance sheets. Secondly, we take into … attested by the different levels of firms' productivity according to size or industry. They also point out a «country effect …