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 …

discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the … production. The measurement of productivity is fraught with conceptual and empirical issues, meaning that there can be a …In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including …

; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …

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 …

Working paper on labour utilization and labour productivity levels in defence industry in the USA and other OECD … countries. Discusses occupational mix, labour force participation, and obstacles in data collecting and in the measurement of … productivity in this sector and considers Western evaluations of labour productivity in the USSR defence industry. …

attention being devoted to productivity determinants given their importance in shaping medium to long run changes in living …

contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in … productivity trends; the measurement of productivity growth in services industries; and a review article of a recent book, Why …This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …

-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 …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …