the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends … reference to measurement issues and technical change; discusses the micro- and macro-economic environment affecting productivity …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

analyzing international productivity levels from both economic and management perspectives. MGI uses microeconomic analysis on a … sector-by-sector level to study the effects that industry decisions ultimately have on national productivity. For the most … part the productivity drivers identified by MGI can be grouped into three broad areas: competitive factors (concentration …

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 Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …

current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …

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 …