measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … series and of cross-country comparability. It also assesses the sensitivity of Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity … productivity trends is desirable in addition to the more common practice of focusing on the business sector. Canada has lagged the …

.The report also synthesizes the findings of the studies along two lines: (1) the overall productivity growth trends in Canada and … other countries and a comparison between forest products sectors in Canada and the United States; and (2) the determinants …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an … productivity levels is in contrast to the typical focus on the gap between productivity growth rates in Canada and the United … States. The paper finds that Canada’s level of output per person employed was 81.0 per cent of the U.S. level in 2002. This …

In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in … force participation in the 1990s in Canada relative to the United States, focus on supply-side factors at play in the … reduce aggregate participation. Enrolment rates for teenagers increased 7 percentage points in Canada between 1989 and 1997 …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …

economies and that Canada's inferior income performance reflected cyclical factors associated with poor macroeconomic policy … economic and labour market developments in Canada and the United States in the 1989-2000 period, looking at trends in real …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R … Canada has performed poorly, both relative to the Canadian non-business sector and to the business sector in the United … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …

In 2012, business sector software investment per worker in Canada was 40.7 per cent of that in the United States. The … in software than their U.S. counterparts. The report reviews the state of the software investment landscape in Canada …