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 … (ICTs) on UK productivity growth; the choice of the business sector versus the total economy for assessing aggregate …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for … this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment in both Canada and the United States and attempts to explain why … ICT investment per worker in the Canadian business sector in 2004 was only 45 per cent of that in the US business sector …

impact of ICT capital on productivity in banks. For the analysis, data from various research reports, and reliable studies on … efficiency and productivity depends more and more on ICT capital. Although, the financial services industry and banks in …There has been much debate on whether the investment in Information Technology provides improvements in productivity …

The impact of demographic developments on productivity is still a little-explored subject. The authors find a strong … and unexpected link between slow labour productivity growth and rapid labour force growth over the period from the mid …

Australia has historically been Canada's poorer cousin. But a pick-up in productivity growth in the 1990s has raised … Australian living standards to Canadian levels. In this article, Dean Parham of the Australian Productivity Commission provides … an overview of Australian economic performance and the policy reforms that turned around Australia's laggard productivity …

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 …