economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency …-national empirical studies and by theoretical advances. Recent research seems to suggest that there is no efficiency-equity trade-off and … that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two …

In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

in employment shares. The former is affected by the efficiency in factor use, that is total factor 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 …

In this chapter, Joseph Heath argues that we tend to overestimate the contribution that further productivity growth … will make to the welfare of Canadians. Traditionally, productivity growth was thought to contribute to increased leisure …, productivity growth has contributed less and less to the well-being of Canadians. The key puzzle for Heath is why further economic …

third section looks at the relative importance of the determinants of living standards ?productivity, working time … conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …, eliminating the Canada-US productivity gap, is by far the most important and effective way to attain the objective of Canadian …