This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

In recent decades, governments in Canada have pursued market-oriented policies at both the macro and micro levels …. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … been dismal, much below that in the United States and below Canada’s historical trend. The objective of this report is to …

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light … on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined …

Canada in the 1990s. The author divides Canadian manufacturing industries into five groups according to their sensitivity to …In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in …

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measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … output, employment and hours estimates in the two countries, and attempts to identify the series that are the most … series and of cross-country comparability. It also assesses the sensitivity of Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity …

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 … true that Canadians are worse off. In fact, increased output prices and employment shares in the industry, as well as the …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The … other two subsectors within the forest products sector – forestry and logging and wood product manufacturing – experienced …

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 … Canada‟s aggregate labour productivity growth from 2000 to 2006 and an offsetting effect on the post-2000 aggregate labour …

person employed, the share of employment in the working age population, and the share of the working age population in the … in employment shares. The former is affected by the efficiency in factor use, that is total factor productivity …