the Canadian average. The report closes with a provincial and industry-level perspective on Alberta‘s relative …

Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector … sector. It highlights the divergent productivity growth paths for the oil and gas sectors in Alberta and Newfoundland and …

the coal mining industry in Canada over the past four decades. It is found that real price movements have had a … substantial impact on productivity growth in the coal mining industry in Canada. The real price of coal increased sharply in the … image of an old-fashioned industry, the coal mining industry in Canada is actually among the most intensive users of …

The Alberta oil sands reserves represent a very valuable energy resource for Canadians. In 2007, Statistics Canada … Canada in their valuation of the Alberta oil sands. We find that the official Statistics Canada estimates of the reserves (22 … valued the oil sands at $342.1 billion, or 5 per cent Canada's total tangible wealth of $6.9 trillion. Given the oil sands …

natural resource industries and in the overall natural resource sector in Canada. This report provides a concise review of the … findings of a detailed analysis undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards for Natural Resources Canada. The … are that: natural resource industries contribute disproportionately to aggregate productivity growth in Canada, with …

industries in Canada over the last 40 years. This report presents data and discusses trends in labour and total factor … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …

in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …

is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …