Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in … Institution is reviewed. The authors have produced a textbook on the different types of measurement error that will force …

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 … particularly important measurement problems, namely the estimation of real output in the non-market sector where output is not …

; 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 …

.95%) and steel use finished products (CHN 9.38%; ITA 1.65%), whereas the USA have higher average annual growth of imports (13 …

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 …

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. …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It …