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 …Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always …

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 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 …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …

weaker productivity growth. It is estimated that these two factors themselves account for 70 per cent of the widening of the … Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth …

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries … argues that a structural measure of labour productivity, closer to a measure of technical efficiency, would take into account … employment rate and hours of work in terms of productivity and that once these effects are taken into account, the United States …

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 …

the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an … highest level of GDP per capita in the OECD area; the gap between the aggregate productivity level in the United States and in … other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a …

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 …