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 …

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 …

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 …

The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the evolution of productivity in the natural resources … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these … labour productivity and total factor productivity since 1961. …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …

the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …

In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …

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 …

measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … appropriate for the calculation of aggregate labour productivity ?both from the perspective of the methodological merits of each … 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 … cent per year between the 2000 cyclical peak and 2007, with capital productivity down 5.97 per cent per year over the same …