the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …

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 slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

This article by Raynauld Letourneau and Martine Lajoie of Industry Canada provides a detailed regional analysis of … most recent data currently available. They find that all regions and provinces of Canada trail the U.S. average in both …