be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …

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 …, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and … the non-labour share (composed of profits, interest and investment income, and incorporated business income) in national …

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 …

cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …

labour productivity, as was the case in the last 25 years. Weak labour productivity growth in BC would in turn translate into …Investment is one of the main drivers of productivity growth, which is the key determinant of living standards in the …

as well. Labour productivity is found to have had a strong negative effect on poverty in China, with productivity …The objective of this report is to document China’s productivity performance since 1978 and determine its impact on … 1978. Strong economic growth has been fuelled by rapid productivity growth, and has been accompanied by impressive declines …

labour productivity levels twice as high as the total economy on average, and labour productivity growth one and one half … times as rapid as total economy labour productivity growth; capital deepening is a key driver of labour productivity growth … in natural resource industries, and high levels of capital intensity explain the high levels of labour productivity in …