Statistics Canada’s KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the article examines productivity growth in … foundational networks on which other industries rely. In 1977, they were quite heavily regulated in Canada. They experienced …

Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower … information and communications technology investment in Canada relative to the United States; the impact of fiscal policy on …

Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second … growth in Canada decelerated after 2000. The source of the difference with the U.S. performance has been the labour market …, with employment declining in the United States but showing strong increases in Canada. Sharpe states that Canada’s poor …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

A key objective of economic policy in Canada is to reduce the productivity gap with the United States. The development … industry dimensions. Unfortunately, statistical agencies do not currently produce estimates of Canada-U.S. productivity gaps by … industry. To fill this data lacuna, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang, and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada in the first article …

.S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and Europe in terms of the contribution of ICT-producing and ICT … growth was similar in Canada and the Europe, but only half that in the United State. In terms of the contribution of ICT …-using industries, Canada was in an intermediate position between Europe and the United States. The authors offer as a possible …

This article by Raynauld Letourneau and Martine Lajoie of Industry Canada provides a detailed regional analysis of … most recent data currently available. They find that all regions and provinces of Canada trail the U.S. average in both …

standards in Canada in the 1990s. He shows that over the 1989-2000 period 80 per cent of the widening of Canada's income gap …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … greatly exceeded that recorded in Canada. Output per hour in Canada fell 20 percentage points from 87 per cent of the US level … in 1994 to 67 per cent in 2001. This development has been responsible for most of the widening of the aggregate Canada …

This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … Issues in Canada, edited by Someshwar Rao and Andrew Sharpe. Stewart begins by noting that at over 900 pages and 25 papers … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and …