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Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …
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software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …
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spending and that this situation accounted to some extent for the lower labour productivity growth experienced in Canada. This … productivity growth. …
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(ICT) investment by province. Given the importance of ICT investment for productivity growth, these data are important for … the comparative analysis and understanding of productivity growth by province. The objective of this report is to present …. The first part of the report reviews the literature on why ICT investment is important for productivity. The second part …
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It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment...
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Investment is one of the main drivers of productivity growth, which is the key determinant of living standards in the … labour productivity, as was the case in the last 25 years. Weak labour productivity growth in BC would in turn translate into …
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A brief analysis of British Columbia’s productivity performance and the state of the drivers of this performance … foreign ownership rules. Trade and migration, including interprovincial and international movement of goods and services …
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the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …
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In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …
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cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …
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