on the linkages between open and competitive markets (competitive intensity) and innovation and productivity growth. The … competitive intensity, innovation and productivity. The second section examines relevant empirical work that has been done on the … the international case studies of the effects of open and competitive markets on innovation and productivity. The report …

This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower … employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …

The impact of demographic developments on productivity is still a little-explored subject. The authors find a strong … and unexpected link between slow labour productivity growth and rapid labour force growth over the period from the mid …

Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second … article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth … experienced in the United States in the past two years is most likely evidence of a post- 2000 productivity growth acceleration …

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 … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

A key objective of economic policy in Canada is to reduce the productivity gap with the United States. The development … industry dimensions. Unfortunately, statistical agencies do not currently produce estimates of Canada-U.S. productivity gaps by … present benchmark estimates of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity and total factor productvity gap for 29 industries for 1999 …

have-not provinces, promotes consumption over investment and hence does not maximize our productivity potential. The author …

Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the …-using industries to productivity growth. In the 1995-2000 period, the contribution of ICT-producing industries to labour productivity …

Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in …

levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the … living standards and productivity and that the productivity gap is the main factor behind the living standard gap. …