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Why Are Americans More Productive Than Canadians?

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an explanation of why Americans have been and continue to be, on average, more productive than Canadians. This focus on relative productivity levels is in contrast to the typical...

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Unbundling Canada's Weak Productivity Performance

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling...

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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001

income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … trends in the two labour markets, including the concentration of employment growth in services and in managerial and …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …

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