software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …

decomposition of productivity growth into technical change and efficiency change.The terms can now be broken down by sector as well …

efficiency change.In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth-technology and efficiency-can be augmented by … productivity growth and change transmitted by the best practices represents technical change.Although I use a nonparametric …

The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

This article puts forward three priority areas for future productivity research. It first identifies important data … lead to biased multifactor productivity growth estimates. It then highlights the health and education sectors as a focus … for future productivity research, given the challenges of capturing quality change in these sectors as well as the public …

This article identifies health care, intangible capital, and the high-tech sector as priority areas for productivity … account for health care can play for productivity measurement. Regarding intangible capital, it stresses the importance of …

priority areas for productivity research. It highlights three hard-to-measure sectors for special attention: health, education … implications for the measurement of inputs and outputs at the sectoral level and hence for productivity estimates. …

This article highlights intangible capital, management practices, and human capital as areas for future productivity … research. It also stresses the importance of developing reliable productivity estimates for emerging and developing countries …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …

The level of private sector labour productivity has been particularly weak since the start of the crisis. In this paper … the associated output and productivity loss. We then find that – using firm level data – the relationship between … productivity growth. …