Productivity Growth and Capacity Utilization in Canadian Business Industries - ARCHIVED
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2013031
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This article in the Economic Insights series reports the impact of correcting for variations in capacity utilization on multifactor productivity growth in Canadian business industries. It is based on a recently released Statistics Canada research paper. Results show that multifactor productivity growth is procyclical for almost all business industries, and that such pro-cyclicality largely reflects variations in capacity utilization in some industries, especially in manufacturing and mining.
Issue Number: 2013031
Main Product: Economic Insights
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