International Productivity Monitor

2000 - 2024

Current editor(s): Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director

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Volume 20, month Fall, 2010

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Canada's Potential Productivity and Output Growth: A Post-Crisis Assessment pp. 3-21

Marcello Estevão and Evridiki Tsounta

Sensitivity of Capital Stock and Multifactor Productivity Estimates to Depreciation Assumptions: A Canada-U.S. Comparison pp. 22-47

Jianmin Tang, Someshwar Rao and Min Li

Insights into Canada’s Abysmal Post-2000 Productivity Performance from Decompositions of Labour Productivity Growth by Industry and Province pp. 48-67

Andrew Sharpe and Eric Thomson

Finland’s Path to the Global Productivity Frontier through Creative Destruction pp. 68-84

Mika Maliranta, Petri Rouvinen and Pekka Ylä-Anttila

Indian Manufacturing Productivity: What Caused the Growth Stagnation before the 1990s? pp. 85-102

Abhay Gupta

Volume 19, month Spring, 2010

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Recent Productivity Developments in the World Economy: An Overview from The Conference Board Total Economy Database pp. 3-19

Vivian Chen, Abhay Gupta, Andre Therrien, Gad Levanon and Bart van Ark

Aggregate Measures of Income and Output in Canada and the United States: Implications for Productivity and Living Standards pp. 20-39

Chris Ross and Alexander Murray

Can Sectoral Reallocations of Labour Explain Canada’s Absymal Productivity Performance? pp. 40-49

Andrew Sharpe

Productivity Growth in Canadian and U.S. Regulated Industries pp. 50-65

Wulong Gu and Amelie Lafrance

International Comparisons of Industry-based Productivity Levels in the Financial and Business Service Sectors pp. 66-81

Pamfili Antipa and Marie-Elisabeth de la Serve

Volume 18, month Spring, 2009

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Education, Productivity and Economic Growth: A Selective Review of the Evidence pp. 3-24

Serge Coulombe and Jean-François Tremblay

New Estimates of Multifactor Productivity Growth for the Canadian Provinces pp. 25-37

Andrew Sharpe and Jean-Francois Arsenault

The UNIDO World Productivity Database: An Overview pp. 38-50

Anders Isaksson

Innovation and Business Strategy: Why Canada Falls Short pp. 51-71

Peter Nicholson

Is Canada Really All That Bad At Innovation?: A Tale of Two Industries pp. 72-79

Richard Hawkins

Bridging Canadian Technology SMEs Over the Valley of Death pp. 80-84

Jorge Niosi

Some Reflections on the Expert Panel Report on Business Innovation in Canada pp. 85-88

Ian A. Stewart

Volume 17, month Fall, 2008

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

The Impact of Labour Market Policies on Productivity in OECD Countries pp. 3-15

Andrea Bassanini and Danielle Venn

Why Have Real Wages Lagged Labour Productivity Growth in Canada? pp. 16-27

Andrew Sharpe, Jean-Francois Arsenault and Peter Harrison

What Explains the ICT Diffusion Gap Between the Major Industrialized Countries: An Empirical Analysis? pp. 28-39

Gilbert Cette and Jimmy Lopez

ICT Production and Productivity in Sweden and Finland, 1975-2004 pp. 40-51

Daniel Lind

The Measurement of TFP in Argentina, 1990-2004: A Case of the Tyranny of Numbers, Economic Cycles and Methodology pp. 52-74

Ariel Coremberg

Improving US National Accounts Integration and Consistency: A Review Article on A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts pp. 75-80

Jean-Pierre Villetelle

Volume 16, month Spring, 2008

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Business Sector Productivity in Canada: What Do We Know? pp. 3-13

Paul Boothe and Richard Roy

An Analysis of the Causes of Weak Labour Productivity Growth in Canada since 2000 pp. 14-39

Jean-Francois Arsenault and Andrew Sharpe

What Is To Be Done for Better productivity Measurement pp. 40-52

Walter Diewert

The State of Data for Services Productivity Measurement in the United States pp. 53-71

Jack E. Triplett and Barry Bosworth

Data for Productivity Measurement in Market Services: An International Comparison pp. 72-81

Robert Inklaar, Marcel Timmer and Bart van Ark

Volume 15, month Fall, 2007

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Product Market Regulation and Productivity Convergence: OECD Evidence and Implications for Canada pp. 3-24

Paul Conway and Giuseppe Nicoletti

The Impact of Interprovincial Migration on Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity in Canada, 1987-2006 pp. 25-40

Andrew Sharpe, Jean-Francois Arsenault and Daniel Ershov

India: Productivity and Sustainable Consumption in OECD Countries: 1980-2005 pp. 41-54

Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Measuring Productivity Performance by Industry in China, 1980-2005 pp. 55-74

Harry Wu

Old and New Asset Boundaries: A Review Article on Measuring Capital in the New Economy pp. 75-80

Paul Schreyer

Volume 14, month Spring, 2007

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

The Early 21st Century U.S. Productivity Expansion is Still in Services pp. 3-19

Barry Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett

Lessons for Canada from International Productivity Experience pp. 20-37

Andrew Sharpe

India: Asia’s Next Productivity Success Story pp. 38-52

Joydeep Mukherji

Can Measurement Error Explain the Weakness of Productivity Growth in the Canadian Construction Industry? pp. 53-70

Peter Harrison

EU KLEMS Growth and Productivity Accounts: An Overview pp. 71-85

Marcel Timmer, Mary O’Mahony and Bart van Ark

Volume 13, month Fall, 2006

Editor’s Overview pp. 1-2

Andrew Sharpe

Benchmarking Canada's Economic Performance pp. 3-20

Jean-Philippe Cotis

The Economists' Manifesto for Curing Ailing Canadian Productivity pp. 21-26

Don Drummond

Explaining Canada-U.S. Differences in Annual Hours Worked pp. 27-45

Alberto Isgut, Lance Bialas and James Milway

Real GDP, Real GDI and Trading Gains: Canada, 1981-2005 pp. 46-56

Ulrich Kohli

How to Measure Government Productivity: A Review Article on 'Measurement of Government Output and Productivity for the National Accounts' (The Atkinson Report) pp. 57-74

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