The most direct mechanism by which labour productivity affects living standards is through real wages, that is, wages adjusted to reflect the cost of living. Between 1980 and 2005, the median real earnings of Canadians workers stagnated, while labour productivity rose 37 per cent. This article...

THIS 17TH ISSUE OF THE International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are the effect of labour market regulation on productivity in OECD countries; the relationship between the growth in labour productivity and...

Interprovincial migration has increased significantly in Canada since 2003. This article develops a methodology to estimate total output gains due to interprovincial migration from two sources: gains due to increased employment, and gains due to re-allocation of workers between provinces with...

This 13th issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. In contrast to the last issue on the Boskin Commission Report after a decade, this issue has a strong Canadian flavour. Topics covered are the benchmarking...

This twelth issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, differs from past issues. Five of the six articles address one topic, namely the impact of the Boskin Commission after one decade on price measurement. A final article...

What have we learned about productivity in the past two decades? In this article, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards reviews a recently published NBER volume entitled New Development in Productivity Analysis, edited by Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean, and Michael J....

This 22nd issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. The topics addressed are: a comparative industry perspective on productivity and economic growth in Europe; a detailed analysis of labour productivity growth...

THE 23RD ISSUE OF THE International Productivity Monitor includes five articles on: business innovation strategies and policies to stimulate innovation in Canada; new direct measures of the use of computer technologies in Canada and the United States and implications for Canadian productivity...

The 26th issue of the International Productivity Monitor features articles on the follow topics: the role of weak demand in explaining slower productivity growth; the sectoral productivity performance of Ontario industries; the sensitivity of multifactor productivity growth in Canada and the...

This 21st issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. The topics addressed are: a comparative industry perspective on productivity and economic growth in Europe; a detailed analysis of labour productivity growth...