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 …

recessions accelerate this process. In doing so we establish a new fact about the demand for skill over the business cycle. Using …

in 2001 to those during earlier postwar downturns and recessions. He finds that aggregate labour productivity growth held …The economic slowdown of 2001 reduced productivity growth in both the United States and Canada. This development has … raised the question of the sustainability or permanency of the pace of productivity growth experienced during the 1995 …

result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however … growth has largely kept pace with private sector real output growth, that productivity growth has been much higher, and that …, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a relatively small industry …

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. …

The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …