International Productivity Monitor

2000 - 2026

Current editor(s): Stephen Tapp

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Volume 43, month Fall, 2022

Editors’ Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe and Bart van Ark

Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part II pp. 3-9

Andrew Sharpe, Daniel Sichel and Bart van Ark

A Measure of Well-being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report pp. 10-40

Francesco Sarracino and Kelsey J. OConnor

Productivity Gains from Worker Well-Being in Europe pp. 41-61

Chiara Peroni, Maxime Pettinger and Francesco Sarracino

From Economic Productivity to Productive Well-Being: the Role of Life Satisfaction and Adjusted Net Savings pp. 62-80

Charles-Henri DiMaria, Chiara Peroni and Francesco Sarracino

Reflections on Measuring and Improving Productivity When Subjective Well-being Is the Objective pp. 81-85

John Helliwell

Productivity Growth and Spillovers across European and American Industries: A Global Value Perspective Based on EU KLEMS pp. 86-109

Weilin Liu, Qian Cheng and Robin Sickles

Did Trade Liberalization Boost Total Factor Productivity Growth in Manufacturing in India in the 1990s? pp. 110-139

Weilin Liu

Volume 42, month Spring, 2022

Editors’ Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe and Bart van Ark

Productivity Growth in Construction Value Chains pp. 3-32

Tero Kuusi, Martti Kulvik and Juha-Matti Junnonen

The China Effect on Manufacturing Productivity in the United States and Other High-income Countries pp. 33-62

Daniel Lind

Trading Gains and Productivity: A Törnqvist Approach pp. 63-86

Ulrich Kohli

Why Was US Labour Productivity Growth So High During the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Role of Labour Composition pp. 87-103

Jay Stewart

Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part I pp. 104-116

Andrew Sharpe, Daniel Sichel and Bart van Ark

Well-being and Productivity: A Capital Stocks Approach pp. 117-141

Jaimie Legge and Conal Smith

Trust, Deep Trust, Productivity and Well-being in 136 Countries pp. 142-164

Tim Hazledine

Time Use, Productivity, and Household-centric Measurement of Welfare in the Digital Economy pp. 165-186

Diane Coyle and Leonard Nakamura

The Link Between the Standard of Living and Labour Productivity in the UK: A Decomposition pp. 187-211

Nicholas Oulton

Volume 41, month Fall, 2021

Editors’ Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe and Bart van Ark

Productivity and Pay in the United States and Canada pp. 3-30

Jacob Greenspon, Anna Stansbury and Lawrence Summers

Have Productivity and Pay Decoupled in the UK? pp. 31-60

Andreas Teichgraber and John van Reenen

The Productivity-Median Compensation Gap in the United States: The Contribution of Increased Wage Inequality and the Role of Policy Choices pp. 61-97

Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens

The Evolution of the Productivity-Median Wage Gap in Canada, 1976-2019 pp. 98-117

Andrew Sharpe and James Ashwell

Is Egypt Really More Productive than the United States? The Data behind the Penn World Table pp. 118-137

Robert Inklaar and Pieter Woltjer

Chaos Before Order: Productivity Patterns in U.S. Manufacturing pp. 138-152

Cindy Cunningham, Sabrina Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger and Zoltán Wolf

Response to Review Article by Bert Balk on Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice pp. 153-156

Robin Sickles and Valentin Zelenyuk

Volume 40, month Spring, 2021

Editors’ Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe and Bart van Ark

Pay and Productivity in Canada: Growing Together, Only Slower than Ever pp. 3-26

David Williams

Benchmarking the Productivity Performance of New Zealand’s Frontier Firms pp. 27-55

Guanyu Zheng, Hoang Minh Duy and Gail Pacheco

The Causes of Japan’s Economic Slowdown: An Analysis Based on the Japan Industrial Productivity Database pp. 56-88

Kyoji Fukao, YoungGak Kim and HyeogUg Kwon

Measuring the Volume of Services Industries Output and Productivity: An Audit of Services Producer Price Indices in OECD Countries pp. 89-104

Mary O’Mahony and Lea Samek

ViewPoint: Canada Should Establish an Equitable Growth Institute pp. 105-117

Don Drummond

Putting Together the Pieces of the Productivity Puzzle: Review Article of Productivity Perspectives and Productivity and the Pandemic pp. 118-133

Bart van Ark

Productivity Measurement with Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis: A Review Article on Measurement of Productivity and Efficiency: Theory and Practice pp. 134-139

Bert Balk

Volume 39, month Fall, 2020

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

A Concerted Effort to Tackle the UK Productivity Puzzle pp. 3-15

Bart van Ark and Anthony Venables

The Pandemic and Short-Run Changes in Output, Hours Worked and Labour Productivity: Canadian Evidence by Industry pp. 16-32

Joel Blit, Mikal Skuterud and Michael Veall

Industry Productivity Performance in G7 Countries after the Global Financial Crisis: A Canadian Perspective pp. 33-52

Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang

A Vertically Integrated Perspective on Nordic Manufacturing Productivity pp. 53-73

Daniel Lind

What Do We Know About Economic and Productivity Growth? A Review Article on "Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity: Foundations, KLEMS Production Models, and Extensions" pp. 74-80

Gilbert Cette

The Impact of Digitalization on the Economy: A Review Article on the NBER Volume "Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda" pp. 81-90

Eric Santor

Volume 38, month Spring, 2020

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Trust and Total Factor Productivity: What Do We Know About Effect Size and Causal Pathways? pp. 3-28

Conal Smith

Productivity, Zombie Firms and Exit Barriers in Portugal pp. 29-49

Christian Osterhold and Ana Fontoura Gouveia

Transatlantic Technologies: The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth pp. 50-80

Robert J. Gordon and Hassan Sayed

Lessons from Productivity Comparisons of Germany, Japan, and the United States pp. 81-103

Martin Neil Baily, Barry Bosworth and Siddhi Doshi

Does Disappointing European Productivity Growth Reflect a Slowing Trend? Weighing the Evidence and Assessing the Future pp. 104-135

John Fernald and Robert Inklaar

The World Bank Perspective on Productivity: A Review Article on "Productivity Revisited: Shifting Paradigms in Analysis and Policy" pp. 136-144

Don Drummond

Measuring Performance and Accountability in Higher Education: A Review Article on "Productivity in Higher Education" pp. 145-154

Mary O'Mahony

Volume 37, month Fall, 2019

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown: Europe Chasing the American Frontier pp. 3-38

Robert J. Gordon and Hassan Sayed

Digitalization and Productivity: In Search of the Holy Grail - Firm-level Empirical Evidence from European Countries pp. 39-71

Peter Gal, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Christina von Rüden, Stéphane Sorbe and Théodore Renault

Does Import Competition Reduce Domestic Innovation? Evidence from the China Shock and Firm-level Data on Canadian Manufacturing pp. 40-95

Myeongwan Kim

Frontier Firms, Productivity Dispersion and Aggregate Productivity Growth in Canada pp. 96-119

Wulong Gu

Is R&D Enough in Improving Firm Productivity? pp. 120-143

Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang

Consistency Issues in the Construction of Annual and Quarterly Productivity Indices pp. 144-155

Bert Balk

The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis edited by Emili Grifell-Tatjé, Knox Lovell and Robin Sickles: A Review Article pp. 156-161

Marshall Reinsdorf