on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of …

contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth … in US high-tech manufacturing sector. The Canadian high-sector is smaller than its US counterpart and experienced much …

The Centre for the Study of Living Standards has released new estimates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity … 1997-2007 period. This article exploits this database to shed light on the nature of the slowdown in labour productivity … growth in Canada after 2000. It identifies manufacturing as the sector that has accounted for most of the slowdown. Within …

Canada in the 1990s. The author divides Canadian manufacturing industries into five groups according to their sensitivity to …

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 …