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 …

effects of unemployment go well beyond loss of income. Roughly 60 per cent of the newly unemployed, compared to about 40 per …

, but the reductions were not nearly as large as the increase in wealth inequality. The unemployment rate is down to a … record low for the 1981-2008 period, and yet the incidence of long-term unemployment is higher now than in 1981. Economic …

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 …

income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … first half of the 1990s, has its roots in part in the different labour market and productivity performance of the two … professional occupations; growing wage inequality; and the downward trend in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …