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Has Trend Productivity Growth Increased in Canada?

Robidoux, Benoît; Wong, Bing-Sun - In: International Productivity Monitor 6 (2003) Spring, pp. 47-55

in the 1988-1996 period to 2.0 per cent in 1996-2001, virtually the same acceleration as in the United States. The … acceleration. …

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Explaining Episodes of Growth Accelerations, Decelerations, and Collapses in Western Africa

Imam, Patrick; Salinas, Gonzalo - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 06 (2015) 01, pp. 1550003-1

The growth literature has had problems explaining the "sub-Saharan African growth dummy" in cross-country regressions. Instead of taking the usual approach of focusing on long-run growth and assuming that sub-Saharan countries have homogenous parameters in growth regressions, we concentrate our...

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Productivity Growth in Service Industries: A Canadian Success Story

Rao, Someshwar; Sharpe, Andrew; Tang, Jianmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … Canadian success story. The sources of the acceleration in service sector labour productivity growth were different in the two … growth acceleration. In the United States, on the other hand, increased capital intensity and intermediate input intensity …

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Determinants of Trends in Living Standards in Canada and the United States, 1989-2000

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 3-10

. With the recovery in the labour market in the second half of the decade much of this decline was reversed. The acceleration …

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The Irish Economic Boom: What Can We Learn?

Fortin, Pierre - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 19-31

acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy …

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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered in Terms of Productivity Growth?

Card, David; Freeman, Richard B. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 41-52

The UK economy has undergone significant market reforms over the last two decades. A key question for productivity researchers is the impact of these reforms on productivity growth. In this article, Richard B. Freeman of the London School of Economics, Harvard University and the NBER and David...

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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience

Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22

the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …

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The New Economy and Trend Productivity Growth in Canada

Sharpe, Andrew; Gharani, Leila - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 3-5

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …

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The Productivity Renaissance in the U.S. Service Sector

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 6-8

This article, which is closely related to the previous article, is also by Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector, with output per worker growing five times faster...

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Review Article on Productivity Growth in Canada and on Industry-level Productivity and International Competitiveness Between Canada and the United States

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 52-58

productivity growth in Canada is likely to follow the recent U.S. acceleration, the factors behind Canada's lower productivity …

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