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 …

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 …

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 objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R … Canada has performed poorly, both relative to the Canadian non-business sector and to the business sector in the United … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …

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

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 … high productivity level, have resulted in positive contributions to Canada‟s aggregate labour productivity growth from 2000 …

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 … Canada‟s aggregate labour productivity growth from 2000 to 2006 and an offsetting effect on the post-2000 aggregate labour …

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