for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …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 …

The author argues that productivity should be raised by bringing the low productivity segment of the workforce closer … to the median. Consequently, he argues that the most pressing task for Canadians is to foster basic skills, reduce the …

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 …

The measurement of productivity is a complex task. The OECD has recently released a comprehensive manual or guide to … the measurement of industry-level and aggregate productivity. In the fifth article, Paul Schreyer from the OECD and the … author of the OECD productivity manual provides an overview of the manual. He highlights a number of the key issues addressed …

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 …

This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … productivity for improving living standards and quality of life. We will be publishing twice a year articles from leading … researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a …

that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if …, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …

International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International … productivity level comparisons are much more complex, requiring comparable industry data and estimates of purchasing power at a … detailed industry level. The International Comparisons of Output and Productivity (ICOP) project established at the University …

the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an … highest level of GDP per capita in the OECD area; the gap between the aggregate productivity level in the United States and in … other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth … weaker productivity growth. It is estimated that these two factors themselves account for 70 per cent of the widening of the …