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Canada's labour productivity performance has been abysmal since 2000, both relative to our historical experience and to … work. Canada's potential level of "social productivity" is lower because of this situation. This is an output shortfall …
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and impact of LMI in Canada, to assess the contribution of recent research to that knowledge, and to outline areas in …
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This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for the Canadian provinces by industry for the 1997-2007 period at the market sector, two-digit, and three-digit NAICS industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour...
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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 …
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The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the productivity...
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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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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. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
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. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has …In recent decades, governments in Canada have pursued market-oriented policies at both the macro and micro levels … been dismal, much below that in the United States and below Canada’s historical trend. The objective of this report is to …
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decades. In particular, Canada’s Aboriginal population could play a key role in mitigating the looming long-term labour … shortage caused by Canada’s aging population and low birth rate. We estimate that complete closure of both the education and …
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