, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds …

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 … States. The paper finds that Canada’s level of output per person employed was 81.0 per cent of the U.S. level in 2002. This …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

In recent decades, governments in Canada have pursued market-oriented policies at both the macro and micro levels …. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … been dismal, much below that in the United States and below Canada’s historical trend. The objective of this report is to …

; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. … economies and that Canada's inferior income performance reflected cyclical factors associated with poor macroeconomic policy … economic and labour market developments in Canada and the United States in the 1989-2000 period, looking at trends in real …

2007 Norway had the highest level of economic well-being and Spain the lowest. Canada ranked ninth among the fourteen …

over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed countries: Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and …

2008 – the month at which employment peaked in Canada – and May 2009, net employment fell by 362,500 persons. The negative …This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing … per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736 higher on average each year over the 2008-2014 period. Between October …

comprehensive overview of trends in a number of indicators of living standards over the 1981-2008 period in Canada. Part one … examines trends in average and median income and wealth indicators in Canada. Part two looks at the distribution of the income … of living standards in Canada over the last quarter century and has identified a number of these indicators as headline …

decades. In particular, Canada’s Aboriginal population could play a key role in mitigating the looming long-term labour … shortage caused by Canada’s aging population and low birth rate. We estimate that complete closure of both the education and …