higher labour productivity levels south of the 49th parallel. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of … Living Standards provides estimates of the size of the gap in aggregate labour productivity between the United States and … using estimates from the establishment survey. Sharpe concludes that the Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity gap …

Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of productivity developments in the U.S. economy in the 1990s. Their main … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …

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 …

first half of the 1990s, has its roots in part in the different labour market and productivity performance of the two … income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common …

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 …

The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of … the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

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 …

Puzzles intrigue and motivate researchers and focus research effort, and the productivity area is fortunate in having … and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … other countries. In terms of the international puzzles, he considers the causes of the post-1973 productivity slowdown that …

has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have … fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …