Sentences with phrase «declined labour productivity»

While surviving the declined labour productivity in the last two quarters, the first quarter statistics revealed a modest but hopeful increase by 0.3 % for Canadian businesses, with a decrease in costs by 1.8 %, attributed in some way to the slight, but slowed growth in hourly compensation.

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In a presentation to the Canadian Association for Business Economics in August, Industry Canada economist Annette Ryan reiterated the familiar productivity lament: beginning in the 1980s, growth in Canadian labour productivity, defined as GDP per hour worked, has been steadily declining and now trails the U.S. and the majority of other G7 countries.

The slowing in 2015 results from a further decline in the growth of trend labour input coupled with no change in the growth rate of trend labour productivity.

Most economists expect potential economic growth to decline from about 3 per cent annually to about 2 per cent over the next ten years, as a result of continued poor productivity growth and a slowing labour force growth as the population ages.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released a comparison of manufacturing output, employment, productivity, and unit labour costs in 16 different industrialized countries. Here's the link: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod4.pdf This data confirms that Canada's manufacturing industry is in the midst of a uniquely terrible crisis. Some commentators have suggested that the sharp decline in Canadian -LSB-...]

The labour productivity of Canadian businesses fell by 0.6 per cent in the third quarter, the second consecutive decline, as the number of hours worked grew faster than business output.

This growth slowdown reflects both declining labour force growth as baby boomers retire in large numbers and a reduced pace of aggregate productivity growth.

The much awaited Labour Productivity Data was released last Tuesday, shedding a glimpse of improvement from the devastating downpour of declined productivity and hourly compensation and uncomfortably high labour costs endingLabour Productivity Data was released last Tuesday, shedding a glimpse of improvement from the devastating downpour of declined productivity and hourly compensation and uncomfortably high labour costs endinglabour costs ending 2008.