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 productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

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 …

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. …

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 … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …

Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector … large productivity gains in a wide range of service industries. …

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 …

This paper provides empirical evidence that the size of the spillovers from U.S. monetarypolicy to non-oil GDP growth …

This paper compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from … Statistics Canada's KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the paper examines productivity growth in … labour productivity growth and multifactor productivity growth than did the aggregate Canadian business sector and had …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …