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The Challenge of Total Factor Productivity

Diewert, Erwin - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 45-52

In this article, as part of the symposium on total factor productivity, Erwin Diewert of the University of British Columbia provides a comprehensive discussion of what is needed to develop reliable measures of total factor productivity in terms of output and the different classes of inputs. He...

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The Widening Canada-US Productivity Gap in Manufaturing

Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Harris, Richard G.; Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 3-22

In this article, Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University, Richard G. Harris from Simon Fraser University, and Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provide a comprehensive analysis of the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour...

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The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information and Communications Technology on Firm Performance

Gera, Surendra; Gu, Wulong - In: International Productivity Monitor 9 (2004) Fall, pp. 37-51

, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …

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Productivity Issues in Canada: A Review Article

Stewart, Ian A. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 78-81

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

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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience

Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22

This article by Edward N. Wolff of New York University examines trends in convergence in OECD countries toward U.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries...

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 1-2

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...

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In Search of the Silver Bullet for Productivity Growth: A Review Article of The Power of Productivity and Transforming the European Economy

Ark, Bart van - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 79-86

attention give by both volumes to innovation and education -- two areas that are generally felt to be very important in terms of …

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 9 (2004) Fall, pp. 1-2

organization innovation and information and communications technologies on firm performance; the effect of adjustment costs on …

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Innovation, Integration and Product Proliferation - Empirical Evidence for the Agri-Food Industry

Karantininis, Kostas; Sauer, Johannes; Furtan, William … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

implications of the changing market structure on the level of innovation has not been studied yet. In this paper we deal with the … link between innovation and market structure using the empirical example of the Danish agri-food industry. The purpose of … this paper is two-fold. First we test for the importance of vertical integration on innovation. While there exist several …

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Increasing Canada's International Competitiveness: Is There a Link between Skilled Immigrants and Innovation?

Partridge, Jamie; Furtan, William Hartley - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

We use an augmented national ideas production function to examine skilled immigrants' impact on Canadian innovation at … the provincial level. Empirically, this model was tested using Canadian data by province on innovation flow over an 11 … year time period, where innovation flow is defined in terms of international (U.S.) patents. It was found that skilled …

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