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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered in Terms of Productivity Growth?

Card, David; Freeman, Richard B. - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 41-52

its historic competitors, France and Germany. They conclude that reforms in the area of union-management relations …

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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2

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...

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 1-2

This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in Canada and the United States; monetary policy in...

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Editor's Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 1-2

The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards; the impact of economic reform on British productivity...

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The Diffusion of ICTs and Growth of the French Economy over the Long-term, 1980-2000

Cette, Gilbert; Mairesse, Jacques; Kocoglu, Yusuf - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 27-38

the second half of the 1990s. In this article, Gilbert Cette from the Bank of France and the University of Aix … accounting of the impact of diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on economic growth in France over the … growth has been sizeable in France, but much less than in the United States, in part because of the smaller size of the …

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ICT, Output and Productivity Growth in the United Kingdom: A Sectoral Analysis

Notaro, Giovanni - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 37-46

Much has been written, including in previous issues of the Monitor, on the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in productivity growth, but this research has focused primarily on North America. In the fourth article, Giovanni Notaro of London Economics investigates...

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Productivity Growth in Canadian and U.S. Regulated Industries

Gu, Wulong; Lafrance, Amélie - In: International Productivity Monitor 19 (2010) Spring, pp. 50-65

This article compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from Statistics Canada’s KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the article examines productivity growth in transportation services (which includes air, rail, and...

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Accounting for Growth from A to Z: Review Article on Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence

Sichel, Daniel E. - In: International Productivity Monitor 12 (2006) Spring, pp. 84-93

The author reviews the book Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence by Dale Jorgenson, Mun Ho, and Kevin Stiroh, which provides a detailed analysis of the remarkable rebound in productivity and output growth in the last decade. He notes that the book can be considered a...

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 11 (2005) Fall, pp. 1-2

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 information and communications technology investment in...

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Recent Productivity Developments in Canada and the United States: Productivity Growth Deceleration versus Acceleration

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 16-26

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...

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