-2001 period productivity growth accounted for all the growth in living standards. Large declines in average hours worked reduced … argues, productivity growth represents the only sustained avenue for living standards growth. With our level of aggregate … living standard growth, but increased labour force participation and a more favourable demographic structure made a positive …

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 …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including …