be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …

concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … causal impact on productivity, as well as a more nuanced approach to policy in this area. In this chapter, Arthur Sweetman … the impact of education on earnings at the individual level and on productivity at the macroeconomic level, and on issues …

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

Investment is one of the main drivers of productivity growth, which is the key determinant of living standards in the … long run. Investment in British Columbia is lagging when compared to that of Canada, particularly in machinery and … equipment and ICT investment. Going forward, a poor investment performance in BC would likely lead to below average growth in …

that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two …

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 productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

In this chapter, William Scarth examines the relationship between population aging, productivity and growth in living … standards and reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the effects of aging on productivity. Indeed, he finding that aging may … in fact lead to increases in productivity, even if no policy initiative is taken. He argues that our economy possesses at …

the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well … Grossman model, the author describes three additional pathways through which health can affect productivity at an aggregate … greater returns from their investment. They may also be motivated to save more for retirement, which would lead to greater …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …&D and information and communications technology (ICT) investment. The objective of this report is to examine the country …’s ICT investment performance since 2000. The key finding is that, since the 2008 peak, business sector ICT investment in …

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 … software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …