drivers of labour productivity in selected OECD countries and their impact on enhanced productivity performance. The report is … divided into three major parts. The first part will provide a general review of international labour productivity and income … growth rates and levels in OECD countries. The second section presents some general lessons from the productivity performance …

on the linkages between open and competitive markets (competitive intensity) and innovation and productivity growth. The … competitive intensity, innovation and productivity. The second section examines relevant empirical work that has been done on the … the international case studies of the effects of open and competitive markets on innovation and productivity. The report …

This is organized into three main parts. The first section provides a perspective on future productivity growth in … Canada. It discusses key productivity concepts, looks at current productivity trends, examines the forces affecting future … productivity growth, and reviews productivity projections in Canada and the United States. The second section discusses the …

This paper makes the case that productivity is Canada’s economic destiny and that Canada’s dismal productivity … puts forward three specific policies to improve Canada’s productivity performance: foster the diffusion of best …

In recent years, the productivity performance of oil and gas extraction in Canada has been dismal. Based on official … real GDP and labour input estimates from Statistics Canada, labour productivity in oil and gas extraction fell 8.23 per … cent per year between the 2000 cyclical peak and 2007, with capital productivity down 5.97 per cent per year over the same …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … whole has performed poorly relative to the total-economy average. Labour productivity in the sector grew by 0.38 per cent …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The …

In recent years, the productivity performance of mining in Canada has been very poor. Based on official real GDP and … labour input estimates from Statistics Canada, labour productivity in mining fell by 2.21 per cent per year between the 2000 … cyclical peak and 2007, with capital productivity down 0.28 per cent per year and total factor productivity (TFP) off 1.07 per …

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 …

. 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. …