This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global …

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 …

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 …

Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower …This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … 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 … article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth … experienced in the United States in the past two years is most likely evidence of a post- 2000 productivity growth acceleration …