The Industry Origins of Canada?s Weaker Labour Productivity Performance and the Role of Structural Adjustment in the 1990s and the 2000s

Michael Willox and John Baldwin

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

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This paper examines how much of the slowdown in productivity growth observed in Canada?s business sector between the 1990s (1990 to 1999) and the 2000s (2000 to 2014) was due to weaker productivity growth within industries and how much was due to structural adjustment. The analysis makes use of a decomposition method that differs from many of the standard labour productivity decomposition approaches commonly found in the literature and allows the contributions of changes in the importance of individual industries to be calculated.

Keywords: Economic accounts; Productivity accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-13
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