This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

This paper examines the influence of the self-employed on the growth in labour productivity in the business sector … over the decade has resulted in downward pressure being put on the growth in aggregate labour productivity in the business … productivity growth in the business sector throughout the 1990s. Almost all of the difference in labourproductivity growth between …

explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces … of long-run growth may help to better explain differences in employment and productivity growth, in particular if …

Publication productivity, as measured by the number of papers, has been regarded as one of the main indicators of … Wide Web in ASEAN countries is still unclear. The main intention of this study was to identify publication productivity … productivity. Moreover, a positive and significant relationship was observed between indices, GDP and internet usage for these …

decades its productivity growth has stagnated. As a result, the productivity gap of Trentino widened by over 20% compared to … regions with the same productivity level in 2000. The benchmarking of productivity drivers in Trentino with those of “peer …” regions points to several policy priorities, including: reviving productivity in tradeable sectors, also through increased …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …