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 most likely evidence of a post- 2000 productivity growth acceleration …

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

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 …

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 …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …

The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with … examines productivity trends in this sector and discusses possible factors behind this situation. He notes that two drivers of … productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have …

way to boost productivity, while at the same time creating a more equitable labour market. Given the unmet demand for …