Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries … argues that a structural measure of labour productivity, closer to a measure of technical efficiency, would take into account … employment rate and hours of work in terms of productivity and that once these effects are taken into account, the United States …

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 …

Jeremy Smith of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards looks at the comparability of productivity growth measures … in Canada and the United States, and finds that comparisons of aggregate productivity performance are sensitive to … higher measured non-business sector productivity growth in Canada relative to the United States, which is partially explained …

In recent years, a number of international data bases on productivity trends and levels have become publicly available … international productivity comparisons for developed countries. Smith first reviews a number of methodological issues associated … with international productivity comparisons and then discusses what is available from the OECD, the U.S. Bureau of Labor …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …