countries. On the other hand, analysts ask whether there is a productivity gap — whether Canada is equally efficient in … investigate the size of the output and productivity gaps between the two countries over the period from 1994 to 2002 and ask how …

their share of employment and, therefore, their relative labour productivity has fallen. The similarity in the trends in the …

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 …

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 …