IPM Issue 4 Editor’s Overview

Abstract

The editorial overview for Issue 4 introduces five articles covering: 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 of ICTs and growth of the French economy over the past two decades; a structural perspective on the roots of the New Economy; and a review of a recent NBER volume on new developments in productivity analysis.