distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

particularly important measurement problems, namely the estimation of real output in the non-market sector where output is not … measured independently of inputs and the estimation of price indices (which are needed to calculate real output) for products …; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an … productivity levels is in contrast to the typical focus on the gap between productivity growth rates in Canada and the United … States. The paper finds that Canada’s level of output per person employed was 81.0 per cent of the U.S. level in 2002. This …

, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

In recent decades, governments in Canada have pursued market-oriented policies at both the macro and micro levels …. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … been dismal, much below that in the United States and below Canada’s historical trend. The objective of this report is to …

; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. … economies and that Canada's inferior income performance reflected cyclical factors associated with poor macroeconomic policy … economic and labour market developments in Canada and the United States in the 1989-2000 period, looking at trends in real …

, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and … several years. They note, for example, that the decline in the labour share in Canada since 1994 has not been due to any …

boardrooms and the residents of the family rooms of Canada". …