living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa … productivity for improving living standards and quality of life. We will be publishing twice a year articles from leading …

productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is recognized as being by far the most important long-term source of sustainable … developments raise a number of issues related to the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being. First, does slower … productivity growth constitute a significant threat to the betterment of the well-being of the world's population, and, if so, by …

productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is recognized as being by far the most important long-term source of sustainable … developments raise a number of issues related to the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being. First, does slower … productivity growth constitute a significant threat to the betterment of the well-being of the world's population, and, if so, by …

. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … attempt to explain the paradox of productivity-enhancing public policies and the continuation of poor productivity performance … the productivity-enhancing effects of further liberalization may be quite small. …

2008 – the month at which employment peaked in Canada – and May 2009, net employment fell by 362,500 persons. The negative … cent in recent years, receive regular EI benefits, reflecting the concentration of employment losses among long term full …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … falling employment-population ratio contributed to the decline in our standard of living relative to that in the United States …