The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil …

The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … whole has performed poorly relative to the total-economy average. Labour productivity in the sector grew by 0.38 per cent …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The …

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 …

labour productivity 16 per cent below the US level, Canada has the potential to reduce much of the productivity gap with the …The living standards in Canada, defined as real GDP per capita, declined relative to those in the United States in the … living standards. Sharpe first examines trends in and determinants of living standards in Canada. He finds that over the 1946 …

The economic slowdown of 2001 reduced productivity growth in both the United States and Canada. This development has …-2000 period in the United States and the likelihood of robust U.S. productivity growth spreading to Canada. In this article …, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards compares productivity trends in the United States and Canada …

Since 2000, business sector labour productivity growth in Canada has averaged 0.95 per cent, 0.60 percentage points …. Moreover, most of the increased Canada-US productivity growth gap since 2000 relates to developments south of the 49th parallel …. Given that the state of the factors driving productivity growth has not deteriorated in Canada relative to the United States …

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 …

the impact of the oil boom on Canada’s labour productivity performance, the contribution of intangible assets to … productivity growth in Ontario, productivity trends in the forest products sector in Canada, and the influence of natural resource …The 27th issue of the International Productivity Monitor features a symposium on priorities and directions for future …

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. …