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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
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Skills, innovation and human capital as they feature prominently on the policy agenda of industrialized countries concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most conventional policy instrument of governments in pursuing these...
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Canada's labour productivity performance has been abysmal since 2000, both relative to our historical experience and to … work. Canada's potential level of "social productivity" is lower because of this situation. This is an output shortfall …
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and impact of LMI in Canada, to assess the contribution of recent research to that knowledge, and to outline areas in … market information (LMI). The purpose of this exercise is to provide a summary of the current state of knowledge on the role … decision-making, and that LMI and LMI-related programs can have a positive impact on individuals' labour market knowledge and …
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This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for the Canadian provinces by industry for the 1997-2007 period at the market sector, two-digit, and three-digit NAICS industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour...
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In 2012, business sector software investment per worker in Canada was 40.7 per cent of that in the United States. The … in software than their U.S. counterparts. The report reviews the state of the software investment landscape in Canada …
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The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the productivity...
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Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector …
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Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R … Canada has performed poorly, both relative to the Canadian non-business sector and to the business sector in the United … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …
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Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
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