-volume inspectors. These results are consistent with the economics literature on productivity spillovers from organizations and peers …

Technological innovation is widely seen as a means for raising productivity levels in state and local government … local governments which weaken the implied relationship between technological change and productivity improvement. …

Specialization at work has been recognized as a key driver of learning and productivity since the days of Adam Smith … specialization and variety jointly drive employee productivity in a real-life setting. We analyze a data set covering 88 individuals …, specialization enhances productivity. However, exposure to variety has a nonlinear influence on productivity; i.e., "too much variety …

competitiveness and productivity of workers and industries throughout the region. …

THIS ISSUE OF THE International Productivity Monitor contains five articles on: recent productivity developments in the … world economy; aggregate measures of income and their implications for productivity and living standards; the role of … sectoral employment shifts in aggregate productivity growth in Canada; productivity trends in regulated industries in Canada …

The recession left its mark on global productivity, which fell in 2009. The productivity growth differential between … the United States and Europe increased dramatically in 2009. Average long-term growth of labour productivity in advanced … economies has stalled since 2000. The gradual improvement in world productivity is due to emerging and developing economies. In …

1980-2008 period. The article also discusses the implications of the eight measures for productivity and living standards … analysis. It concludes that GDP and NDP are the most appropriate measures of output for productivity analysis, while NNI is the …

rates of productivity growth and, to a smaller degree, physical and human capital accumulation. Finally, economic freedom …

This paper uses a simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to explore the qualitative impact of productivity …