The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro … levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …

-down approach of Diewert and Yu (2012). Inputs and outputs are measured and used to estimate the quarterly total factor productivity …

This study uses new GDP estimates for the unincorporated sector in order to examine labour productivity in the …

examining firm turnover and productivity growth in various services industries in Canada and situating them relative to … aggregate productivity growth. This paper extends our understanding of industry differences in the competitive process by … entrants are relatively large at birth, the penalty for entry at suboptimal size or productivity is higher. The reallocation …

productivity between Canada and the United States. To do so, the business sector in each country is divided into unincorporated and … two countries are compared, the gap in the level of productivity between Canada and the United States is reduced … proprietorships on the Canada–United States productivity gap. Sole proprietorships in the two countries more closely resemble one …

. It finds that while output per worker in Canada was only about 75% of the United States productivity level, the total … factor productivity measure of Canada was about the same as the United States level - that is, there was very little …Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …

productivity growth. Most measures of multifactor productivity consider only the inputs of the business sector. This paper produces … an alternate measure of multifactor productivity for the business sector that incorporates the impact of public capital …

Statistics Canada's KLEMS database and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the paper examines productivity growth in … airline industry had slower productivity growth in Canada than in the United States over the 1977 to 2003 period …This paper compares the productivity growth of a set of Canadian and U.S. regulated industries. Using data from …

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 was prepared for the National Statistics Council, which advises the chief statistician of Canada on the full … range of Statistics Canada's activities, particularly on overall program priorities …