Difficulties Assessing Multifactor Productivity for Canada

In 2011, Canada's business sector multifactor productivity (MFP) index, as estimated by Statistics Canada, was below that for 1977, a third of a century earlier. Over these years, public policies were enacted to try to improve Canada's productivity. Yet the nation's MFP continued to f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michael J. Harper, Alice O. Nakamura, Lu Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for the Study of Living Standards 2012-09-01
Series:International Productivity Monitor
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Online Access:http://www.csls.ca/ipm/24/IPM-24-Harper.pdf