Dans ce document, on vise a determiner si les investissements dans les technologies de l'information et des communications, combines a des changements organisationnels et aux competences des travailleurs, contribuent a ameliorer le rendement des entreprises canadiennes.

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics Canada provides Canadian evidence to support this view....

In this paper we examine the effect of technological change on the relative demand for skilled workers across Canadian industries. We find that skill upgrading at the aggregate level is less evident in Canada than in the United States and other industrialized economies over the 1981-94 period....

This paper compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from Statistics Canada's KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the paper examines productivity growth in transportation services (which includes air and rail),...

Official data from statistical agencies are not always ideal for cross-country comparisons because of differences in data sources and methodology. Analysts who engage in cross-country comparisons need to carefully choose among alternatives and sometimes adapt data especially for their purposes....

This paper provides an overview of the productivity program at Statistics Canada and a brief description of Canada's productivity performance. The paper defines productivity and the various measures that are used to investigate different aspects of productivity growth. It describes the...

This paper examines the effects of alternative specifications of the user costs of capital on the estimated price and volume indices of capital services. It asks how sensitive the results are to the use of exogenous versus endogenous rates of return, to alternate ways of including capital gains,...

Le secteur des Comptes canadiens de productivite (CCP) de Statistique Canada consacre deux programmes a la productivite multifactorielle (PMF). Le Programme de la productivite multifactorielle par principal secteur etablit des indices pour l'ensemble du secteur des entreprises et les groupes...

Dans ce document, on analyse les gains considerables de la productivite des industries manufacturieres canadiennes par suite de la reduction des tarifs decoulant de l'Accord de libre-echange entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis.

La presente etude se penche sur le roulement des entreprises et sur la croissance de la productivite dans le secteur canadien du commerce de detail. Le roulement des entreprises a lieu lorsque, en raison du processus concurrentiel, des entreprises sortantes et des entreprises existantes en...