. This paper explores the direct economic consequences of immigration on host nations’ productivity performance at a sectoral … made a negative contribution to labour productivity growth in Spain and a negative but negligible contribution in the UK … sectors, but we note considerable variation in magnitudes. Labour productivity growth has a neutral contribution from migrant …

destination most preferred by immigrants. However, it has also had a scant productivity performance. The main burden on … productivity growth lies with the construction sector and almost all private service sectors with the unique exception of the … of growth, shifting from labour creation to improvements in multifactor productivity. …

This 13th issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … Canadian flavour. Topics covered are the benchmarking of Canadian economic performance, policies for improving productivity … government output and productivity. …

-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour … qualification and Total Factor Productivity. Results are given for 29 different branches; individually and grouped into four … that although the ICT intensive group appears to be the most dynamic cluster, most of the impact on productivity is still …

The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special … notable inefficiencies, as identified by negative Total Factor Productivity (TFP) contributions to productivity growth during … resurgence of labour productivity in Spain over the 2000-2004 period. …

This 21st issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. The topics addressed are: a comparative industry perspective on productivity and economic growth in … Europe; a detailed analysis of labour productivity growth in the transportation equipment industry in Canada; a portrait of …

United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …

-2001 period productivity growth accounted for all the growth in living standards. Large declines in average hours worked reduced … argues, productivity growth represents the only sustained avenue for living standards growth. With our level of aggregate … labour productivity 16 per cent below the US level, Canada has the potential to reduce much of the productivity gap with the …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … whole has performed poorly relative to the total-economy average. Labour productivity in the sector grew by 0.38 per cent …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The …

’ productivity performance at a sectoral level. We consider its impact in two very different European countries, Spain and the UK … demographic differences. We then go on to analyze the role of migration on productivity using two different approaches: i) growth …