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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 1-2
This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...
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What's New About the New Economy? IT, Economic Growth and Productivity
Bosworth, Barry P.; Triplett, Jack E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 19-30
Has the economy fundamentally changed in the 1990s because of the introduction of information technology or is the impact of IT not so much "new" as larger than before? In this article, Barry Bosworth and Jack Triplett of the Brooking Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of...
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...
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An Analysis of the Canada-U.S. ICT Investment Gap: An Update to 2013
Thomas, Jasmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015
&D and information and communications technology (ICT) investment. The objective of this report is to examine the country …’s ICT investment performance since 2000. The key finding is that, since the 2008 peak, business sector ICT investment in … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …
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The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 3-18
Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to … the total economy and manufacturing level can be entirely accounted for by the greater size and faster growth of the ICT … medium term given the continued U.S. predominance in the crucial ICT sector. …
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Productivity Issues in Canada: A Review Article
Stewart, Ian A. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 78-81
This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity Issues in Canada, edited by Someshwar Rao and Andrew Sharpe. Stewart begins by noting that at over 900 pages and 25 papers the volume represents an important contribution to the...
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Is IT Driving the U.S. Productivity Revival?
Stiroh, Kevin J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 2 (2001) Spring, pp. 31-36
Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always been thought to be the driving force behind this development. In this article by Kevin Stiroh of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York provides strong empirical support for this...
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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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Total factor productivity - a misleading concept
Reati, Angelo - In: BNL Quarterly Review 54 (2001) 218, pp. 313-332
The paper criticises the concept of total factor productivity as a measure of technical change and economic performance on two grounds: (i) theoretical, because it shares all the weaknesses of the neoclassical production function from which it is derived, (ii) its relevance in helping to...
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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
The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth, both in absolute terms and relative to the United States, offsetting much of the poorer performance of the manufacturing sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has...
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