measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … appropriate for the calculation of aggregate labour productivity ?both from the perspective of the methodological merits of each … series and of cross-country comparability. It also assesses the sensitivity of Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity …

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 slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

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 …

In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including … discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the … production. The measurement of productivity is fraught with conceptual and empirical issues, meaning that there can be a …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …

The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth … sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … Canadian success story. The sources of the acceleration in service sector labour productivity growth were different in the two …

The present literature review is an attempt to gather and summarize the extent of our knowledge of the productivity … trends and levels in the forest products sector. We consider single factor as well as total factor productivity definitions ….The report also synthesizes the findings of the studies along two lines: (1) the overall productivity growth trends in Canada and …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an … productivity levels is in contrast to the typical focus on the gap between productivity growth rates in Canada and the United … that output per hour has always been below that in the United States, the productivity gap has increased in the 1990s …

first half of the 1990s, has its roots in part in the different labour market and productivity performance of the two … income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common …