This paper describes the evolution of the Multifactor Productivity Program launched at Statistics Canada in 1987 and the improvements made in multifactor productivity measurement since then. The improvements were made in response to developments in the economic literature, better data sources,...

La presente etude porte sur la maniere dont l'expansion des entreprises sur les marches contribue a la croissance de la productivite. On y examine la question de savoir s'il existe un lien entre l'entree sur de nouveaux marches, tant internationaux qu'interieurs, et une croissance plus marquee...

Le present document a pour objectif de determiner si l'integration des entreprises manufacturieres canadiennes dans une chaine de valeur mondiale (CVM) ameliore leur productivite. Pour tenir compte de l'effet d'autoselection (les entreprises plus productives choisissent elles-memes de se joindre...

Le present document etudie la croissance de l'economie des ressources au Canada et la contribution des gains d'echange qui decoulent de la hausse des termes de l'echange a la croissance du revenu reel de 1870 a 2010. Il comprend un historique de la croissance d'une succession de ressources...

This paper studies the growth of the Canadian resource economy and the contribution of trading gains arising from increasing terms of trade to real income growth from 1870 to 2010. It combines a historical account of the growth of a succession of natural resources--examining both the production...

Official data from statistical agencies are not always ideal for cross-country comparisons because of differences in data sources and methodology. Analysts who engage in cross-country comparisons need to carefully choose among alternatives and sometimes adapt data especially for their purposes....

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows...

This paper provides an overview of the productivity program at Statistics Canada and a brief description of Canada's productivity performance. The paper defines productivity and the various measures that are used to investigate different aspects of productivity growth. It describes the...

This paper examines the effects of alternative specifications of the user costs of capital on the estimated price and volume indices of capital services. It asks how sensitive the results are to the use of exogenous versus endogenous rates of return, to alternate ways of including capital gains,...

Ce document porte sur le role des investissements dans l'infrastructure au Canada. Notre pays se demarque des autres pays membres de l'Organisation de cooperation et de developpement economiques par la taille des investissements dans son infrastructure par rapport a d'autres stocks de capital....