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What do the Canada-US productivity numbers mean?

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What do the Canada-US productivity numbers mean?

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” by Andrew Sharpe Is our productivity growth worse than the Americans’ or better? It depends. In terms of output per worker, the US is growing more quickly. But we’re doing better in both output per dollar of capital invested and total factor productivity. In manufacturing, the US is out-gunning us badly, but its advantage is concentrated in two industries, machinery and electronics, where output measurement is especially difficult. In the majority of other industries, our productivity has been growing faster than theirs, though it hasn’t yet caught up. download article (PDF format) | return to index “Language skills hold back immigrant kids in math and science” by Arthur Sweetman Canadian-born children do significantly better than the children of immigrants in standardized tests in math and science. The gap is less in the higher grades, however, and in all grades tested it is less if both the child being tested and his or her classmates speak the language of instruction at home. This

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