IMF Staff Country Reports

Canada: Selected Issues

September 6, 2001

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Summary

Between 1980 and 1995, labor productivity in the business sector grew at an average annual rate in Canada, which was slightly faster than productivity growth in Germany, but significantly slower than labor productivity growth in France, Italy, Japan, and the United States. To better understand developments in labor productivity, it is useful to decompose its growth rate into changes in the capital/labor ratio and in total factor productivity. The contribution of information technology to labor productivity growth has been more modest in Canada than in the United States.

Subject: Exchange rates, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Government securities, Labor productivity, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Bank subsidiary, Canada, CR, Europe, Exchange rates, Global, Government securities, Holding company, Holding company structure, ISCR, Labor productivity, Nominal exchange rate, Price level, Price-level targeting, Productivity, Productivity growth, Statistics Canada, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    85

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2001/157

  • Stock No:

    1CANEA0022001

  • ISBN:

    9781451806939

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685