This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor … point post-1990 increase in the Canada-US labour productivity gap …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United … productivity in the services sector is much lower in Canada. The lower levels of labour productivity and MFP in the Canadian …

This paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment …

We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which …

the productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … measured output. Thus conventional productivity measures will be biased downward when such regulations are imposed. In this …" capital and then use this framework to devleop an adjustment to nonparametric measures of productivity growth, purging them of …

This paper evaluates the importance of innovation spending for understanding Canada-U.S. firm size and productivity … productivity, closely in line with the evidence. Differences in innovation costs account for the majority of firm size and … productivity differences, while fairly modest differences in regulatory burden translate to sizeable aggregate losses because they …

their share of employment and, therefore, their relative labour productivity has fallen. The similarity in the trends in the …