The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

Since 1995, productivity growth has accelerated significantly in the United States. Information technology has always … investments in information technology (IT) in the early 1990s show the largest productivity gains in the late 1990s and that IT … capital investment has a large impact of productivity gains. His evidence also supports the view that the U.S. productivity …

manufacturing industries. We find estimates of R&D capital elasticities with respect to productivity which are significant and …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …

fall in labor productivity is explained by an insufficient investment on non-ICT capital as well as by a negative … contribution from Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The positive news is the finding of a slight recovery since 2000 brought about …

adoption costs imply that the Solow residual mismeasures productivity growth: adoption costs are resource costs representing an … unmeasured investment. I find that when this investment is included, productivity grew about 0.4% per annum faster than official … measures during the 70's and early 80's, reducing the size of the productivity "slowdown." Indeed, estimated productivity …

productivity. Using econometric modelling and input-output economics, the analysis examines and measures the extent to which … telecommunications has contributed to national and sectoral productivity performance. The main findings from this paper suggests that …

This paper provides a review of conceptual and methodological issues in measuring productivity. Attention is given to … the concept of productivity and the relationship between productivity and technological change. Different approaches to … measuring productivity are surveyed and the results from a number of NZ productivity studies are summarised. The availability of …