contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …

contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level … aggregate productivity in Canada; and the role of micro-institutions in fostering productivity growth and reducing poverty in …The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards …

measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for … series and of cross-country comparability. It also assesses the sensitivity of Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity … productivity trends is desirable in addition to the more common practice of focusing on the business sector. Canada has lagged the …

.The report also synthesizes the findings of the studies along two lines: (1) the overall productivity growth trends in Canada and …The present literature review is an attempt to gather and summarize the extent of our knowledge of the productivity … trends and levels in the forest products sector. We consider single factor as well as total factor productivity definitions …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an … productivity levels is in contrast to the typical focus on the gap between productivity growth rates in Canada and the United … States. The paper finds that Canada’s level of output per person employed was 81.0 per cent of the U.S. level in 2002. This …

This eighth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains eight articles. Topics covered are: a progress report on endogenous growth theory; recent productivity developments in … Canada and the United States; monetary policy in the new economy; the effect of information and communications technologies …

using estimates from the establishment survey. Sharpe concludes that the Canada-U.S. aggregate labour productivity gap …Historically, per capita income in the United States has exceeded those in Canada and this difference has reflected … higher labour productivity levels south of the 49th parallel. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of …

labour productivity 16 per cent below the US level, Canada has the potential to reduce much of the productivity gap with the …The living standards in Canada, defined as real GDP per capita, declined relative to those in the United States in the … living standards. Sharpe first examines trends in and determinants of living standards in Canada. He finds that over the 1946 …

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 …

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 …