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the coal mining industry in Canada over the past four decades. It is found that real price movements have had a … substantial impact on productivity growth in the coal mining industry in Canada. The real price of coal increased sharply in the … image of an old-fashioned industry, the coal mining industry in Canada is actually among the most intensive users of …
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substantial impact on productivity growth in the gold mining industry in Canada. The real price of gold declined steadily … evidence that the gold mining industry in Canada was not in good health towards the end of the 1970s, despite the record gold … performance from the Canadian gold mining industry over the past four decades. It is found that real price movements have had a …
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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 …
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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 … productivity in mining, it is not necessarily true that Canadians are worse off. In fact, increased relative output prices for …
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natural resource industries and in the overall natural resource sector in Canada. This report provides a concise review of the … findings of a detailed analysis undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards for Natural Resources Canada. The … are that: natural resource industries contribute disproportionately to aggregate productivity growth in Canada, with …
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industries in Canada over the last 40 years. This report presents data and discusses trends in labour and total factor … productivity for natural resources industries in Canada over the 1961-2000 period. It also examines the major determinants of these … forestry and logging, wood products and paper products; mining; and manufacturing industries involved with the processing of …
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Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
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In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …
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in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …
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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 …
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