Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of …

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 … software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …

behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It … year range, as the factors accounting for the U.S. productivity boom finally spill over into Canada. …