communications technologies (ICT) manufacturing; the slower growth of machinery and equipment (M&E) investment; slower economic …After accelerating in the second half of the 1990s, aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada has fallen off … of productivity growth in the United States and the apparent strength of most productivity drivers in Canada. Factors …

The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil …

The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil …

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 …

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 …

This article by Raynauld Letourneau and Martine Lajoie of Industry Canada provides a detailed regional analysis of … levels of living standards, measured as output per capita, and productivity (output per worker) for the 1995-97 period, the … most recent data currently available. They find that all regions and provinces of Canada trail the U.S. average in both …

Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector … to reflect the impact of the massive investments in information technologies, which finally now seem to be producing … large productivity gains in a wide range of service industries. …

assessment of Canada’s record in education and skills is quite positive. He finds that relative to other OECD countries, Canada …The skills issue is currently at or near the top of the federal government’s policy agenda, given its importance for … Canada’s recent experience in education and skill formation. In his paper, W. Craig Riddell attempts such an assessment. He …

managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to … managerial skills and technology adaptation on firm performance and productivity through the mediation channel of process … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that …

In this second contribution to the Symposium included in this volume on Future Productivity in Canada, Tiff Macklem of … the Bank of Canada compares sources of recent productivity growth in Canada and the United States. Macklem sees aggregate … labour productivity growth in Canada advancing at around a 2 per cent average annual rate in the medium term. This view is …