This paper studies the direct impact of labour force ageing on productivity growth in 10 Canadian provinces over the period 1981-2001, with an outlook to 2046. It shows that older workers are, on average, less productive than younger workers and that labour force ageing has a modest negative...

In this paper we propose a decomposition technique to examine the sources of industrial contribution to aggregate labour productivity growth. We show that in terms of pure labour productivity growth, the manufacturing and service sectors contributed equally to the aggregate Canada-U.S. labour...

This paper shows that the higher smallplant employment share in Canada compared with the United States mattered for the CanadaU.S. manufacturing labourproductivity gap, but it did not contribute to the widening of the gap between 2002 and 2007. In addition, it shows that while the weaker...