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Investment and Long-term Productivity Growth in the Canadian Business Sector, 1961 to 2002

Gu, Wulong; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

provides the framework for the analysis. This framework provides estimates of the relative importance of labour inputs … composition of capital and labour inputs to be investigated. In addition, the underlying factors that determine labour …

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Revisions to the Quarterly Labour Productivity Estimates

Rylska, Nataliya; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

This paper examines the various products associated with the quarterly labour productivity program. It outlines the … Canadian labour productivity and its components (gross domestic product and hours worked) since the inception of the program in …

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The Integration of the Canadian Productivity Accounts Within the System of National Accounts: Current Status and Challenges Ahead

Baldwin, John R.; Harchaoui, Tarek - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

has moved to a demand for multifactor (total factor) productivity measures that take into account both labour and capital … quality. Labour estimates have to be created that are consistent with the definitions of the SNA but that are also consistent … at the industry level with key estimates contained in the National Accounts (e.g., labour income). Investment and capital …

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Concurrence industrielle, evolution des parts de marche et croissance de la productivite

Gu, Wulong; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cet article, on propose une methode permettant de mesurer l'effet du roulement des etablissements sur la croissance de la productivite et on decrit comment cet effet a evolue au Canada a la suite de l'importante liberalisation des echanges survenue au cours des annees 1990.

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Assessing the Impact of Greenhouse Gases Emissions on Canada's Productivity Growth, 1981 to 1996 - An Experimental Approach

Harchaoui, Tarek<br; > Lasserre, Pierre - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This study explores the relationship between goods and greenhouse gas emissions within a detailed cost-function-based model of the Canadian business sector.

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Relative Multifactor Productivity Levels in Canada and the United States: A Sectoral Analysis

Gu, Wulong; Baldwin, John R.; Yan, Beiling - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United … States are due to the differences in MFP. Third, our industry results show that the levels of labour productivity and MFP in …

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Depreciation Rates for the Productivity Accounts

Canada, Statistics - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

This paper generates depreciation profiles for a diverse set of assets based on patterns of resale prices and retirements. In doing so, it explores the sensitivity of estimates of the growth in capital stock and capital services to alternate estimates of depreciation. In the first instance,...

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Productivity Performance in Canada, 1961 to 2005

Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

This study examines Canadian productivity performance over the period 1961 to 2005. It investigates labour productivity …. Finally, this study investigates the share of income going to labour, and the real hourly compensation of workers. This …

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The 2001 to 2004 Revisions of the Canada-U.S. Labour Productivity in the Business Sector

Kaci, Mustapha; Maynard, Jean-Pierre - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

This paper examines the revision cycle for labour productivity estimates over the period 2001 to 2004. …

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Infrastructure Capital: What Is It? Where Is It? How Much of It Is There?

Dixon, Jay; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

This paper focuses on the role of investments in infrastructure in Canada. The size of infrastructure investments relative to other capital stock sets this country apart from most other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. The paper reviews the approaches taken by...

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