--- canonical_url: "https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-42/introduction-to-the-symposium-on-productivity-and-well-being-part-i/" title: "Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part I" author: name: "CSLS" url: "https://csls.ca/author/cslc/" date_published: "2026-07-13T08:02:00+00:00" date_modified: "2026-07-13T08:02:00+00:00" post_type: "ipm" summary: "" ipm_issue_period: - "Spring 2022" ipm_keyword: - "capital stocks" - "CSLS" - "life satisfaction" - "Part I" - "productivity" - "Sichel" - "symposium" - "time use" - "TPI" - "trust" - "UK living standards" - "well-being" ipm_research_theme: - "Policy and institutions" - "Well-being and living standards" ipm_country_focus: - "Canada" - "International" - "New Zealand" - "United Kingdom" featured_image: "https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IPM_50_banner.webp" status: "publish" --- # Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part I Canonical URL: https://csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-42/introduction-to-the-symposium-on-productivity-and-well-being-part-i/ # Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part I [Download full PDF article](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-42-5-Sharpe-Sichel-van-Ark.pdf) Cite this article × Cite this article as: Sharpe, Andrew, Dan Sichel, and Bart van Ark. 2022. “Introduction to the Symposium on Productivity and Well-being, Part I.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 42 (Spring 2022): 104–116. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-42/introduction-to-the-symposium-on-productivity-and-well-being-part-i/ ## Authors: - Andrew Sharpe Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - Dan Sichel Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board - Bart van Ark University of Manchester / The Productivity Institute ## IPM Issue 42 Spring 2022 pp. 104–116 ## Related IPM articles [Is the SNA Still Useful? 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It discusses the motivation (the CSLS-TPI partnership; growing policy interest in well-being beyond GDP); the organizational process (call for papers, refereeing, seven accepted papers split across Issues 42 and 43); and a synthesis of the four Part I articles covering capital stocks approaches to well-being TFP, trust and productivity/well-being, time use and household production measurement, and the link between labour productivity and UK living standards. Cette introduction fournit le contexte du premier symposium de l’IPM jamais organisé sur les liens productivité-bien-être, issu d’un atelier virtuel tenu en novembre 2021. Elle examine la motivation (le partenariat CSLS-TPI; l’intérêt croissant des politiques pour le bien-être au-delà du PIB); le processus organisationnel (appel à communications, arbitrage, sept articles acceptés répartis entre les numéros 42 et 43); et une synthèse des quatre articles de la Partie I couvrant les approches des stocks de capital pour la PMF du bien-être, la confiance et la productivité/le bien-être, l’utilisation du temps et la mesure de la production des ménages, et le lien entre la productivité du travail et le niveau de vie au Royaume-Uni. [Download full PDF](https://csls.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IPM-Issue-42-5-Sharpe-Sichel-van-Ark.pdf)