This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … Issues in Canada, edited by Someshwar Rao and Andrew Sharpe. Stewart begins by noting that at over 900 pages and 25 papers …

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

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to …The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … to that of investment goods in the United States than in Canada. This was due to slower labour compensation growth and …, to a lesser extent, a smaller decline in the price of investment goods in Canada. The depreciation of the value of the …

article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased … production and use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) accounted for more of the U.S. productivity growth …

the intermediate future. They point out that information technology investment reflects the overall momentum of the … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for … productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from …

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 …

contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards … of government productivity; and a review of a recent volume on productivity issues in Canada. …The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …