Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …

third section looks at the relative importance of the determinants of living standards ?productivity, working time … accounting for the income gap with the United States and other countries. The fourth section discusses what strategies need to be … conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …

levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the … living standards and productivity and that the productivity gap is the main factor behind the living standard gap. …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … 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 … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our …

-2001 period productivity growth accounted for all the growth in living standards. Large declines in average hours worked reduced … argues, productivity growth represents the only sustained avenue for living standards growth. With our level of aggregate … labour productivity 16 per cent below the US level, Canada has the potential to reduce much of the productivity gap with the …

Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … per cent better off in terms of real personal income per capita in 2000 than in 1989, while Canadians experienced a 5 … first half of the 1990s, has its roots in part in the different labour market and productivity performance of the two …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …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 …

plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence …

between cities and the surrounding areas - the suburbs. He notes that rising income inequality tends to lead to greater income …