Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …

is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …

. The Centre for the Study of Living Standards and Human Resources Development Canada then organized two sessions on labour …

demographic shifts on labour force participation in Canada. They use an accounting framework and plausible trend participation … Canada. They find that the ageing of the population has already started to exert downward pressure on the aggregate … participation rate in Canada due to longer life expectancy and the resulting growing proportion of the population in the low …

In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in … force participation in the 1990s in Canada relative to the United States, focus on supply-side factors at play in the … reduce aggregate participation. Enrolment rates for teenagers increased 7 percentage points in Canada between 1989 and 1997 …

participation in Canada in the 1990s. In the first article in the symposium, Pierre Fortin and Mario Fortin attempt to determine the …

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light … 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 …

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 …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …