that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita …

eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada … living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …

In this chapter, William Watson challenges Heath's interpretation of the benefits of productivity growth, but agrees … productivity growth. Watson tackles Heath's assessment of the social benefits of productivity growth directly, starting with the … believes that the case for higher productivity would remain compelling. Without powerful analytical guidance, Watson concludes …

acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy … countries. He finds that Ireland has experienced a long-term productivity boom over the last 25 years and that the recent …

policies fostering technology transfer provide countries with the ability to converge to the productivity growth rate of the … important drivers of productivity growth; and that competition policy can actually spur innovation and hence growth through a …In recent years, our understanding of the sources of growth has been strongly influenced by endogenous growth theory …

the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …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 …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given … the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …

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 … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It …