In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …

This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …

be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …

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

The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

This review article discusses the volume Ageing, Health and Productivity: The Economics of Increased Life Expectancy …, which provides a detailed examination of the relationship between ageing and productivity. While the authors find some … evidence of a negative effect of ageing on productivity, they conclude that at the aggregate level the effect is small. The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …