The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

US productivity leadership or could be due to the ease in which US firms operate in their home surroundings. The evidence … would therefore be more compelling if US firms were leaders outside the US. We study the productivity of plants owned by US …

This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in … (ICTs) on UK productivity growth; the choice of the business sector versus the total economy for assessing aggregate …

The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth … sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … Canadian success story. The sources of the acceleration in service sector labour productivity growth were different in the two …

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. …

Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in …

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 …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant … implications of offshoring bias for manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by … the magnitude of the discounts from offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity …