Canada: Selected Issues
March 24, 2000
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The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the early 1970s and concerns about its implications for Canadian competitiveness. To better understand productivity developments in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) into investment-specific productivity change (ISP) and technologically neutral productivity change (TNP). The gap in manufacturing productivity growth between Canada and the United States originates mostly in the strong performance of specific industries, such as electrical products and commercial and industrial machinery.
Subject: Corporate income tax, Income tax systems, Labor, Production, Public debt, Taxes, Total factor productivity, Unemployment
Keywords: Canada, contribution rate, Corporate income tax, CR, employer, employer pay, employment insurance system, Europe, Income tax systems, ISCR, labour market, North America, rate, statistics Canada, tax rate, TNP growth, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, unemployment differential
Pages:
60
Volume:
2000
DOI:
Issue:
034
Series:
Country Report No. 2000/034
Stock No:
1CANEA0022000
ISBN:
9781451806922
ISSN:
1934-7685
