This study uses new GDP estimates for the unincorporated sector in order to examine labour productivity in the …

aggregate productivity growth. This paper extends our understanding of industry differences in the competitive process by … examining firm turnover and productivity growth in various services industries in Canada and situating them relative to … entrants are relatively large at birth, the penalty for entry at suboptimal size or productivity is higher. The reallocation …

productivity between Canada and the United States. To do so, the business sector in each country is divided into unincorporated and … corporate businesses, and estimates of labour productivity are generated for each sector.The productivity performance of the … two countries are compared, the gap in the level of productivity between Canada and the United States is reduced …

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity …. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …

The Canadian Productivity Accounts (CPA) of Statistics Canada maintain two multifactor productivity (MFP) programs. The … Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Program develops the indexes of MFP for the total business sector and major industry … groups in the business sector. The Industry Multifactor Productivity Program or the Industry KLEMS Productivity Program …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

This study examines Canadian productivity performance over the period from 1961 to 2005. It investigates labour … productivity growth and the sources of improvements therein - multifactor productivity growth, capital intensity and skill … upgrading. It also examines the contribution that productivity growth has made to economic growth and to the improvement of …

examines the effect of the various user cost formulae on the measured multifactor productivity growth …