and briefly discusses what he sees as the ten most important productivity puzzles facing researchers in Canada and in … terms of productivity puzzles related to Canada, he identifies the considerable difference in labour productivity growth in …-U.S. productivity gap and Canada’s relatively low machinery and equipment capital intensity as puzzles meriting in-depth research. …

fostered productivity growth in Canada: a high level of human capital and low barriers to firm creation. The latter facilitates …Considering the entire 1995-2003 period and compared to all OECD countries, this paper presents the view that Canada … has actually performed quite well in terms of labour productivity growth. The author points to two factors that have …

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R … Canada has performed poorly, both relative to the Canadian non-business sector and to the business sector in the United … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …

In 2012, business sector software investment per worker in Canada was 40.7 per cent of that in the United States. The … in software than their U.S. counterparts. The report reviews the state of the software investment landscape in Canada … software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of …

conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …, eliminating the Canada-US productivity gap, is by far the most important and effective way to attain the objective of Canadian …Canada’s living standards have been falling relative to those in the United States in recent years. The Chairman and …

factor productivity growth rates and levels in Canada, the United States and Finland over the 1975-99 period. The sixth …The objectives of this study are to provide a comprehensive overview of the productivity situation in the forest … products sector at the national and provincial level in Canada, to compare this situation to that in other countries with …

sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … countries. In Canada, increased multifactor productivity growth was responsible for 70 per cent of the labour productivity … were the most important contributors to the service sector labour productivity growth acceleration. In Canada, the …

Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower …This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living … information and communications technology investment in Canada relative to the United States; the impact of fiscal policy on …

Since 2000, productivity growth in Canada and the United States have followed markedly different paths. In the second … article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards finds that the remarkable productivity growth … experienced in the United States in the past two years is most likely evidence of a post- 2000 productivity growth acceleration …