Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends … reference to measurement issues and technical change; discusses the micro- and macro-economic environment affecting productivity …

The adoption of advanced technologies is a means of fostering productivity improvement. Many theories seek to explain …

This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …

The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …

. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … attempt to explain the paradox of productivity-enhancing public policies and the continuation of poor productivity performance … the productivity-enhancing effects of further liberalization may be quite small. …

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 …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … whole has performed poorly relative to the total-economy average. Labour productivity in the sector grew by 0.38 per cent …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The …