and Japan, forty detailed industries according to NACE Rev. 2 (ISIC Rev. 4) along with nine aggregated industries and … into account. The data are used to study total factor productivity, labour and capital productivity developments in a … changes in labour services and the composition thereof, as drivers of value added and labour productivity growth. Significant …

and software has steadily enhanced the role of IT investment. Productivity growth in IT-producing industries has risen in … importance and a productivity revival is underway in the rest of the economy. The surge of IT investment in the United States … burst of IT investment in all of the G7 nations – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, as well as the U.S. These …

on output, inputs and total factor productivity. The analysis provides evidence on the diffusion of intangible investment …This paper uses a new cross-country cross-industry dataset on investment in tangible and intangible assets for 18 … European countries and the US. We set out a framework for measuring intangible investment and capital stocks and their effect …

This paper introduces new estimates of recent productivity developments in the United States, using an appropriate … continued strong performance of U.S. productivity since 2000. We find that the major sectoral players in the late 1990s pickup … were not contributors to the more recent surge in productivity. Rather, striking gains in MFP in the finance and business …

After accelerating in the second half of the 1990s, aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada has fallen off … of productivity growth in the United States and the apparent strength of most productivity drivers in Canada. Factors … that may have contributed to the post-2000 productivity growth slowdown include: the weakness of information and …

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 …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

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

What have we learned about productivity in the past two decades? In this article, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the … Study of Living Standards reviews a recently published NBER volume entitled New Development in Productivity Analysis, edited … of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …

The author argues that productivity should be raised by bringing the low productivity segment of the workforce closer …