This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

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 …

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 … cyclical peak and 2007, with capital productivity down 0.28 per cent per year and total factor productivity (TFP) off 1.07 per …

. 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. …

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …

The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

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 … production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

A brief analysis of British Columbia’s productivity performance and the state of the drivers of this performance … structure. Research and innovation, including R&D investment, product and process innovation, knowledge diffusion and technology …