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. …

that IT is contributing to labor productivity growth through both increases in the levels of IT capital per worker and … total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the production of IT equipment. The main outstanding issue is whether IT is …

The contribution of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to growth in Asian economies is clearly … paper employs an extension of the standard growth accounting framework, using estimates of stock of ICT capital (hardware …, software, and telecommunications equipment), to estimate the direct contributions to growth. The contribution of ICT to growth …

Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of productivity developments in the U.S. economy in the 1990s. Their main … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …

productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US …. Australia generated a productivity improvement of 1.1 per cent from information and communication technology use and other …

collapsing investment and shrinking employment. Sharp declines in productivity, reflecting in part transition-related factors …

used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic … suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. …

Italy’s deep-rooted structural problems resulted in an unsatisfactory productivity performance and a dismal growth … decline in output is mainly accounted for by a collapse in productivity; in the medium term, employment and capital are also …

growth from total factor productivity has been minor, while the high population growth poses a significant challenge to …