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 …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is recognized as being by far the most important long-term source of sustainable … developments raise a number of issues related to the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being. First, does slower … productivity growth constitute a significant threat to the betterment of the well-being of the world's population, and, if so, by …

This 22nd 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 …

This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …