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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

growth comparisons made at the total economy level. This also raises questions about the comparability of GDP growth between …

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Economic Activity of the On-Reserve Aboriginal Identity Population in Canada: Gross Domestic Product Estimates for Indian Reserves, 2000 and 2005

Tsiroulnitchenko, Evguenia; Hazell, Elspeth - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report develops estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for reserves in Canada by estimating total earnings for … reserves and multiplying these results by the national share of total earnings in income-based GDP. Two estimation approaches … development of reserve-specific GDP estimates for those reserves which had the required data available. The most notable finding …

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Lessons for Canada from International Productivity Experience

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

The objective of this report is to develop a more comprehensive understanding, from a policy perspective, of key 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...

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The Potential Contribution of Aboriginal Canadians to Labour Force, Employment, Productivity and Output Growth in Canada, 2001-2017

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-Francois; Lapointe, Simon - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007

Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. This report estimates the potential benefit for the Canadian economy of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians. We find that increasing the number of...

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Investing in Aboriginal Education in Canada: An Economic Perspective

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

The objective of this paper is to summarize the research done by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) on the economic impacts of improving levels of Aboriginal education. Improving the social and economic well-being of the Aboriginal population is not only a moral imperative; it is...

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The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force, Output and the Fiscal Balance

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François; Cowan, Fraser - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. Based on the methodology developed in Sharpe, Arsenault and Lapointe (2007), we estimate the effect of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians on labour...

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Moving from a GDP-Based to a Well-Being Based Metric of Economic Performance and Social Progress: Results from the Index of Economic Well-Being for OECD Countries, 1980-2009

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

slowest. In all 14 countries rate of advance of the IEWB was less than that of GDP per capita. Economic well-being, therefore …, has not advanced as rapidly as GDP per capita. …

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Beyond GDP: Measuring Economic Well-Being in Canada and the Provinces, 1981-2010

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

GDP per capita. Both the consumption and wealth domains experienced solid advances over the period, but these developments …

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A Detailed Analysis of the Productivity Performance of Oil and Gas Extraction in Canada

Sharpe, Andrew; Bradley, Celeste - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

real GDP and labour input estimates from Statistics Canada, labour productivity in oil and gas extraction fell 8.23 per …

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A Detailed Analysis of the Productivity Performance of the Canadian Forest Products Sector Since 2000

Sharpe, Andrew; Harrison, Peter - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

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 per year between 2000 and 2007, below the economy-wide...

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