current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …, well-being and fiscal capacity, and to analyze trends toward or away from convergence for these economic variables. This …

. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … attempt to explain the paradox of productivity-enhancing public policies and the continuation of poor productivity performance … the productivity-enhancing effects of further liberalization may be quite small. …

2008 – the month at which employment peaked in Canada – and May 2009, net employment fell by 362,500 persons. The negative … cent in recent years, receive regular EI benefits, reflecting the concentration of employment losses among long term full …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

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 …

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 … that output per hour has always been below that in the United States, the productivity gap has increased in the 1990s …

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 … trends in the two labour markets, including the concentration of employment growth in services and in managerial and …