Productivity and Prosperity in the Information Age: A Canada-U.S. Comparison

Insights on the Canadian Economy

10 Pages Posted: 2 Jul 2009

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Tarek M. Harchaoui

Statistics Canada - Microeconomic Analysis Division

Faouzi Tarkhani

Government of Canada - Analytical Studies Branch

Kais Dachraoui

Statistics Canada

Date Written: July 18, 2003

Abstract

This paper examines three sets of issues: a) the extent to which information technology has contributed to Canada’s productivity growth; b) how Canada's productivity performance compared to the U.S. and c) what was the impact of the recent Canadian productivity revival on prosperity. The study concludes that, in the late 1990s, Canada's multifactor productivity performance compared favourably to the U.S., information technology user industries contributed to a large extent to Canada's productivity revival and Canada's standard of living improved significantly primarily because of the increase in the labour utilization rate.

Keywords: productivity, information technology, labour productivity

JEL Classification: D24, J24, O47, O3

Suggested Citation

Harchaoui, Tarek M. and Tarkhani, Faouzi and Dachraoui, Kais, Productivity and Prosperity in the Information Age: A Canada-U.S. Comparison (July 18, 2003). Insights on the Canadian Economy, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1427986 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1427986

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Faouzi Tarkhani

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Kais Dachraoui

Statistics Canada ( email )

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