The.31st CEIES seminar "Are we measuring productivity correctly" was held on 12 and 13 October in Rome, Italy. It … of the art in measurement of productivity worldwide, - to identify major challenges for statistics with a special focus …

On 12 June and 9 September 2008 the EESC Labour Market Observatory organised two hearings on "Sustainable Productivity …

This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between innovation, productivity and exports regarding the SMEs … exporting (innovative) firms versus non-exporting (not innovative) ones in terms of productivity. In addition, we demonstrate … exportation. Finally we show the firms’ conscious self-selection in export markets in endogenizing productivity through innovation. …

ambiguity surrounding the productivity gap between Indirect Exporters and Domestic firms indicates that these two categories of …

1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese … provinces we calculate the growth of the productivity and of its two components, using DEA Malmquist index. Finally we present a …

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …

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 …