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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 52-68

The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with …

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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2

the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …

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Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings

Pilat, Dirk - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 32-44

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has in recent years devoted considerable resources to the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an overview of the key results of this research effort....

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The Widening Canada-US Productivity Gap in Manufaturing

Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Harris, Richard G.; Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 3-22

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 …

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