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 …

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 …

The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to … the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the … author of the OECD productivity manual provides an overview of the manual. He highlights a number of the key issues addressed …

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. …

Jeremy Smith of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards looks at the comparability of productivity growth measures … in Canada and the United States, and finds that comparisons of aggregate productivity performance are sensitive to … higher measured non-business sector productivity growth in Canada relative to the United States, which is partially explained …

and the Industrial Statistics Yearbook, discusses labour productivity growth in manufacturing in Sri Lanka. …