measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … appropriate for the calculation of aggregate labour productivity ?both from the perspective of the methodological merits of each … series and of cross-country comparability. It also assesses the sensitivity of Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity …

Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of productivity developments in the U.S. economy in the 1990s. Their main … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …

software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and … measurement methodologies between the two countries. The remaining two-thirds are more difficult to explain. …

A key objective of economic policy in Canada is to reduce the productivity gap with the United States. The development … industry dimensions. Unfortunately, statistical agencies do not currently produce estimates of Canada-U.S. productivity gaps by … present benchmark estimates of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity and total factor productvity gap for 29 industries for 1999 …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …

Standards Institution (BSI), to collective learning and productivity growth in Britain. It discusses the pivotal contribution of … that this mode of standardisation has made a significant contribution to productivity growth in Britain. …

Productivity growth is carefully scrutinized by macroeconomists because it plays key roles in understanding private … public pension systems, among other things. However, estimates of recent and expected productivity growth rates suffer from … productivity growth in the US by examining the extent to which they are revised over time. We also examine the extent to which such …

Productivity growth is carefully scrutinized by macroeconomists because it plays key roles in understanding private … public pension systems, among other things. However, estimates of recent and expected productivity growth rates suffer from … productivity growth in the US by examining the extent to which they are revised over time. We also examine the extent to which such …