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# IPM Issue 31 Editor’s Overview

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# IPM Issue 31 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2016. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 31 (Fall 2016): 1–2. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-31/

## Author:

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Andrew Sharpe
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

## IPM Issue 31

Fall 2016 pp. 1–2

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The editorial overview for Issue 31 introduces eight articles: the productivity paradox of the new digital economy; industry origins of Canada’s post-2000 productivity slowdown; the productivity-median wage gap in Canada; a symposium on Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Sichel review + Gordon reply); and a symposium on total factor productivity (Oulton on the mystery of TFP + appendix, Calver-Murray MFP decomposition by industry and province, Murray on partial vs. total factor productivity measures).

Cet aperçu éditorial pour le numéro 31 présente huit articles : le paradoxe de productivité de la nouvelle économie numérique; les origines sectorielles du ralentissement de la productivité au Canada après 2000; l’écart productivité-salaire médian au Canada; un symposium sur The Rise and Fall of American Growth de Robert Gordon (recension de Sichel et réponse de Gordon); et un symposium sur la productivité multifactorielle (Oulton sur le mystère de la PMF avec annexe, décomposition de la PMF par industrie et province par Calver-Murray, et Murray sur les mesures de productivité partielle par rapport à la productivité totale).

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