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 …

productivity are essential. According to official estimates of productivity produced by Statistics Canada, labour productivity in … year between 1994 and 2003. Estimates of productivity produced by the CSLS, based on official Statistics Canada employment … and real GDP figures, show that labour productivity in the health care and social assistance industry declined by 0.69 per …

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 …

This paper explores the linkages between productivity and social development from the perspective of synthesizing the … exploring the linkages between productivity and social well-being involving researchers from around the world and culminating in … the edited volume Toward a Social Understanding of Productivity. Contributions discuss both linkages from productivity to …

on the linkages between open and competitive markets (competitive intensity) and innovation and productivity growth. The … competitive intensity, innovation and productivity. The second section examines relevant empirical work that has been done on the … the international case studies of the effects of open and competitive markets on innovation and productivity. The report …

concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … causal impact on productivity, as well as a more nuanced approach to policy in this area. In this chapter, Arthur Sweetman … the impact of education on earnings at the individual level and on productivity at the macroeconomic level, and on issues …

the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency … efficiency or productivity of a public service requires a measurement of the value or utility generated by the service. However … ironically undermined the effectiveness and productivity of the public and voluntary sectors. She illustrates the perverse …

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 …