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Productivity Growth in Service Industries: A Canadian Success Story

Rao, Someshwar; Sharpe, Andrew; Tang, Jianmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

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 …

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Understanding Productivity and Income Differentials Among OECD Countries: A Survey

Ark, Bart van - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts …

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Productivity Concepts, Trends And Prospects: An Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

significant margin of error associated with productivity growth rates, even at the aggregate level. Sharpe identifies two … OECD productivity levels toward the US level; the post-1995 acceleration in labour productivity growth in the United States …

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A Survey of Indicators of Economic and Social Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 1999

In recent years, interest in aggregate or composite indicators of economic and social well-being at the community, national and international levels has grown greatly. For example, the release each year of the United Nations?Human Development Index (HDI) generates considerable media interest,...

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The Role of Labour Market Information for Adjustment: International Comparisons

Sharpe, Andrew; Qiao, Sharon - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2006

Labour Market Information (LMI) is a policy instrument that governments use to coordinate labour market adjustments. Many approaches are utilized in the provision of this information in OECD countries. This report examines approaches in five OECD countries (Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany,...

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Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s

Heisz, Andrew; Jackson, Andrew; Picot, Garnett - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Andrew Heisz, Andrew Jackson and Garnet Picot provide an incisive and comprehensive analysis of the distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends over time and the particular patterns that can...

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Aggregate Labour Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States: Definitions, Trends and Measurement Issues

Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … growth comparisons to the choice of monitoring trends at the total economy or business sector level, investigates the sources … United States in terms of aggregate labour productivity growth over 1981-2003 to a much smaller degree according to total …

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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The Canada-Atlantic Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap: A Detailed Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector. A number of possible factors contributing to the...

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Structural Influences on Participation Rates: A Canada-U.S. Comparison

Ip, Irene; King, Sheryl; Verdier, Geneviève - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in the United States actually rose slightly (up 0.5 percentage points between 1989 and 1997). This US experience provides a useful benchmark for the analysis of the Canadian...

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