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 …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … to that of investment goods in the United States than in Canada. This was due to slower labour compensation growth and …, to a lesser extent, a smaller decline in the price of investment goods in Canada. The depreciation of the value of the …

Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always … investments in information technology (IT) in the early 1990s show the largest productivity gains in the late 1990s and that IT … capital investment has a large impact of productivity gains. His evidence also supports the view that the U.S. productivity …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of …

researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a … vehicle for an international exchange of ideas and information on productivity topics. The first issue of the Monitor contains … eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada …

. Canada also appears to have benefited from innovation driven by ICT use and related organizational change, especially in the … fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …Considering the entire 1995-2003 period and compared to all OECD countries, this paper presents the view that Canada …

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It … year range, as the factors accounting for the U.S. productivity boom finally spill over into Canada. …

and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … terms of productivity puzzles related to Canada, he identifies the considerable difference in labour productivity growth in …-U.S. productivity gap and Canada’s relatively low machinery and equipment capital intensity as puzzles meriting in-depth research. …