Gu, Wulong; Baldwin, John R.; Yan, Beiling - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2011
Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … occurred in the manufacturing sector. This paper examines how this slowdown was associated with the restructuring that occurred … in manufacturing as a result of the increase in excess capacity, the dramatic increase in the Canada-U.S. exchange rate …