Using the Kilts Nielsen Consumer Panel (KNCP), this paper documents new stylized facts on expenditure and income growth …. Next, I document that movers' income growth displays higher variance than non-movers', both before and after moving. Movers …' expenditure growth also exhibits higher variance than non-movers' before and after the move. These findings suggest that movers …

growth rates between 1990 and 2010 for four regions in the United States. This paper finds that the American States are …

, demographic structures, labour force participation, and the unemployment rate ?in the growth of living standards in Canada and in … pursued in terms of the five determinants of living standards growth for Canada to exceed US living standards by 2016. The key … conclusions of the paper are twofold. First, a focus on improving Canada’s productivity growth performance, and in particular …

The Canadian service sector has performed well in recent years in terms of labour and multifactor productivity growth … sector. Service sector labour productivity growth has also shown a marked acceleration in both Canada and the United States … Canadian success story. The sources of the acceleration in service sector labour productivity growth were different in the two …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …