economic boom and lessons for other countries; productivity trends in OECD countries; international comparisons of labour …The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …

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 …-level explanation, or narrowly-based, which would point to industry-specific factors. In this article in the issue, Someshwar Rao and …

This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … vehicle for an international exchange of ideas and information on productivity topics. The first issue of the Monitor contains …, and finally a symposium of three articles on the measurement and interpretation of total factor productivity. In addition …

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 …

analyzing international productivity levels from both economic and management perspectives. MGI uses microeconomic analysis on a … sector-by-sector level to study the effects that industry decisions ultimately have on national productivity. For the most … at the industry level. Competitive factors may explain the poor productivity performance of the Canadian financial and …

the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the …The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to … in the manual, including: the choice of gross output versus value added productivity measures; the need for independence …

phenomenon not observed elsewhere; divergences in productivity growth performance are not due to different measurement techniques … States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited … the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database …Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD … represents the most comparable productivity estimates that are currently available for cross-OECD comparisons, the authors also …

; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing … discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the … production. The measurement of productivity is fraught with conceptual and empirical issues, meaning that there can be a …