In recent decades, governments in Canada have pursued market-oriented policies at both the macro and micro levels …. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … been dismal, much below that in the United States and below Canada’s historical trend. The objective of this report is to …

, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower … information and communications technology investment in Canada relative to the United States; the impact of fiscal policy on … employment and productivity; productivity growth in manufacturing in Sweden, and service sector productivity measurement. …

standards in Canada in the 1990s. He shows that over the 1989-2000 period 80 per cent of the widening of Canada's income gap … falling employment-population ratio contributed to the decline in our standard of living relative to that in the United States …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … greatly exceeded that recorded in Canada. Output per hour in Canada fell 20 percentage points from 87 per cent of the US level … in 1994 to 67 per cent in 2001. This development has been responsible for most of the widening of the aggregate Canada …