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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 …
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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
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; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …
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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 …
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Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector …
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …
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The Impact of Interprovincial Migration on Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity in Canada, 1987-2006 …Interprovincial migration has increased significantly in Canada since 2003. This article develops a methodology to …
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sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … countries. In Canada, increased multifactor productivity growth was responsible for 70 per cent of the labour productivity … were the most important contributors to the service sector labour productivity growth acceleration. In Canada, the …
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