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 … Issues in Canada, edited by Someshwar Rao and Andrew Sharpe. Stewart begins by noting that at over 900 pages and 25 papers …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to …The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

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 … production and use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) accounted for more of the U.S. productivity growth …

the intermediate future. They point out that information technology investment reflects the overall momentum of the … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for … productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from …

accounting of the impact of diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on economic growth in France over the …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 …

Australia has historically been Canada's poorer cousin. But a pick-up in productivity growth in the 1990s has raised … reform as particularly important in fostering productivity growth: sharper competition; greater openness to trade, investment … Australian living standards to Canadian levels. In this article, Dean Parham of the Australian Productivity Commission provides …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … institutional changes such as product and labour market deregulation have served as catalysts for growth. He then looks at the role … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the ….S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and Europe in terms of the contribution of ICT-producing and ICT …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity …

capital accumulation on productivity growth in Canada, differences between Gross Domestic Product and Net Domestic Product …, future productivity growth in Canada, and the OECD growth study. …This seventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …