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 study is the third in a series related to the project launched in fall 2003 by the Canadian Productivity Accounts of Statistics Canada in order to compare productivity levels between Canada and the United States. The study's purpose is to examine the comparability of the components of the...

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows...

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,...

The aim of this paper is to describe the actual methodology used to estimate annual hours worked by industry and province in Canada in view to be consistent with the System of National Accounts.

Cette etude a pour objectif de decrire brievement la methodologie actuellement utilisee pour produire le volume annuel d'heures travaillees conforme au Systeme de comptabilite nationale (SCN) . Ces donnees servent d'entrees de travail dans les mesures annuelles et trimestrielles de la...

Ce document porte sur le role des investissements dans l'infrastructure au Canada. Notre pays se demarque des autres pays membres de l'Organisation de cooperation et de developpement economiques par la taille des investissements dans son infrastructure par rapport a d'autres stocks de capital....

Cette etude examine la performance canadienne en terme de productivite au cours de la periode 1961 a 2004. Elle etudie la croissance de la productivite du travail et les sources de cette croissance en terme de productivite multifactorielle, de contribution de l'intensite du capital et...