The economic slowdown of 2001 reduced productivity growth in both the United States and Canada. This development has …-2000 period in the United States and the likelihood of robust U.S. productivity growth spreading to Canada. In this article …, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards compares productivity trends in the United States and Canada …

researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a … eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada …, the renaissance of service sector productivity in the United States, a regional comparison of U.S-Canada standards of …

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 …

The participation rate of women aged 25-64 rose greatly in the 1970s and 1980s, but has stagnated in the 1990s. In … integration of women into the labour force. In the fourth article of this symposium, Paul Beaudry and Thomas Lemieux use a cohort … of women who entered the labour force at different points in time. They decompose a cohort’s participation rate into …