in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … other two subsectors within the forest products sector – forestry and logging and wood product manufacturing – experienced …

products sector at the national and provincial level in Canada, to compare this situation to that in other countries with … important forestry product sectors, and to offer some explanation of the trends discovered. The report covers seven major areas … industries, logging and forestry, wood products, and paper products. The second discusses trends in employment and hours worked …

.The report also synthesizes the findings of the studies along two lines: (1) the overall productivity growth trends in Canada and … other countries and a comparison between forest products sectors in Canada and the United States; and (2) the determinants …

, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds … GDP per capita. Both the consumption and wealth domains experienced solid advances over the period, but these developments …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … universal medicare. Osberg also finds that relative to the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada has done the … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in …

natural resource industries and in the overall natural resource sector in Canada. This report provides a concise review of the … findings of a detailed analysis undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards for Natural Resources Canada. The … are that: natural resource industries contribute disproportionately to aggregate productivity growth in Canada, with …

industries in Canada over the last 40 years. This report presents data and discusses trends in labour and total factor … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these … forestry and logging, wood products and paper products; mining; and manufacturing industries involved with the processing of …

Canada than in the United States in both years. …

, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2009 period. It finds that in … 2009 Norway had the highest level of economic well-being and Spain the lowest. Canada ranked ninth among the fourteen …