in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

business processes around IT capital can thereby boost productivity growth. The aim of this study is to empirically examine how … …rm productivity growth is affected by orga- nizational changes and investments in IT using a Difference …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

condition for the full realization of the productivity gains associated with ICT. Using aggegate data, the author finds … in order to benefit from the productivity-augmenting potential of ICT. One implication of this analysis is that despite … the current lull in investment, productivity growth in Canada should continue to remain fairly robust as firms continue to …

adoption costs imply that the Solow residual mismeasures productivity growth: adoption costs are resource costs representing an … unmeasured investment. I find that when this investment is included, productivity grew about 0.4% per annum faster than official … measures during the 70's and early 80's, reducing the size of the productivity "slowdown." Indeed, estimated productivity …