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 …

potential barriers to productivity growth and discussing policies that could enable faster growth. Given the increasing role of … countries with low-labour costs in several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for …

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 …

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

In contrast to the significant slowdown in aggregate productivity growth in Canada since 2000, the labour productivity … for the period are analyzed, as well as land and intermediate input productivity. The main drivers of productivity growth …

labour productivity growth stronger than the business sector over both the long and short term, but has outperformed … manufacturing only in the more recent period. Labour productivity growth is decomposed into capital intensity and multifactor … productivity growth, which are found to have contributed to growth almost equally, and labour composition growth accounted for less …

The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … performance in the construction sector; examines the prospects for productivity growth in the construction sector; and makes a …