This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States …

Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of … Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak … productivity performance at the aggregate level, by accentuating divergence between a group of "frontier" firms and the rest of the …

productivity (TFP). We continue this line of work by documenting the importance of TFP differences in explaining cross sectional …

and to estimate the contribution of aggregate input growth and total factor productivity (TFP) growth to income growth …

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 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 …

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

Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of productivity developments in the U.S. economy in the 1990s. Their main … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …

This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower … employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …