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This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …
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be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …
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software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …
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The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven … from strong productivity gains, the productivity performance of the paper manufacturing subsector has been far from … impressive, especially in the post-2008 period. This report provides a detailed analysis of output, input and productivity trends …
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current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …
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The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …
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Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R …
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. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has … attempt to explain the paradox of productivity-enhancing public policies and the continuation of poor productivity performance … the productivity-enhancing effects of further liberalization may be quite small. …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...
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