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Research questions

What is the history of productivity growth rates in Canada?
How does productivity growth in Canada compare to productivity growth in the United States?
How does productivity growth affect the economy? Do differences across industries primarily affect workers wages or the prices that they pay?
What has happened to investment and how do these changes relate to economic growth?
Has the cyclical volatility of productivity growth increased in the last two decades?
What are the underlying differences in the productivity of domestic- and foreign-controlled establishments?
What is the underlying precision of productivity estimates? What care should be taken in using productivity estimates to compare inter-country productivity growth rates?
What is eco-efficiency? Can productivity estimates be devised that take into account the use to which the environment and water are being put in the production process?

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