Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …

Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always … investments in information technology (IT) in the early 1990s show the largest productivity gains in the late 1990s and that IT … capital investment has a large impact of productivity gains. His evidence also supports the view that the U.S. productivity …

a productivity equation. We find that ICT is an im-portant driver of innovation in both manufacturing and services …Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus … tends to be either on R&D driven techno-logical innovation on the one hand, or on organisational changes complemented by ICT …

productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from … resurgence in the United States, reflecting both an productivity acceleration and greater hours worked and project U.S. output … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …

Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth …