New Estimates of Real Income and Multifactor Productivity Growth for the Canadian Business Sector, 1961-2011

Using new data from Statistics Canada, this article shows that the multifactor productivity (MFP) performance of the Canadian business sector has been reasonably satisfactory over the past half century. In particular, traditional gross income MFP growth averaged 1.03 per cent per year over the 1961-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: W. Erwin Diewert, Emily Yu
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-Diewert-Yu.pdf