contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …

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 …

inter-industry differences in productivity levels among manufacturing industries. The authors conclude that Canada could …, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada provide additional evidence of this relationship through a … detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …

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 … by industry. In this article Bart van Ark and Marcel Timmer, two economists from the University of Groningen, provide an …