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 …

performance from the Canadian gold mining industry over the past four decades. It is found that real price movements have had a … substantial impact on productivity growth in the gold mining industry in Canada. The real price of gold declined steadily … evidence that the gold mining industry in Canada was not in good health towards the end of the 1970s, despite the record gold …

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 … productivity in mining, it is not necessarily true that Canadians are worse off. In fact, increased relative output prices for …

forestry and logging, wood products and paper products; mining; and manufacturing industries involved with the processing of …