Proceedings of an international workshop organised jointly by the Banque de France and the Bank of Canada and aimed at comparing the measures and assessments of productivity and potential output growth differentials between industrialised countries.

There have been sharp movements in productivity growth in the euro area and in the United States recently, upwards in the former and downwards in the latter, which seem to be partly due to structural developments.

This analysis characterizes empirically how good labour relations can alleviate the negative impact on productivity of regulatory constraints or workforce opposition. Our evidence of good labour relations lies in the existence of binding collective agreements, at the firm or at the industry...

ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...