and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … affected virtually all industrial countries the grand daddy. He also identifies the post-2000 productivity growth acceleration … absence of a post-1995 productivity growth acceleration in Europe as developments that are currently not well understood. In …

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 the new economy; the effect of information and communications technologies …

fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …Considering the entire 1995-2003 period and compared to all OECD countries, this paper presents the view that Canada … has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have …

sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … were the most important contributors to the service sector labour productivity growth acceleration. In Canada, the … Canadian success story. The sources of the acceleration in service sector labour productivity growth were different in the two …

researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a … eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada …, the renaissance of service sector productivity in the United States, a regional comparison of U.S-Canada standards of …

OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both … sector in the United States relative to that in Canada. They note that the Canada-U.S. productivity gap could widen in the …

the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …The third 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 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 …