Unbundling Canada's Weak Productivity Performance

Andrew Sharpe

No 2010-02, CSLS Research Reports from Centre for the Study of Living Standards

Abstract: This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the United States.

Keywords: productivity; labour productivity; output per hour; capital intensity; total factor productivity; Canada; United States; employment; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 E23 J00 J08 O13 O30 O51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02
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