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# Appendix: Decompositions of Aggregate Labour Productivity Growth

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# Appendix: Decompositions of Aggregate Labour Productivity Growth

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Arsenault, Jean-François, and Andrew Sharpe. 2008. “Appendix: Decompositions of Aggregate Labour Productivity Growth.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 16 (Spring 2008): 40–104. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/ipm-issue-16/appendix-decompositions-of-aggregate-labour-productivity-growth/

## Authors:

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Jean-François Arsenault
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

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Andrew Sharpe
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

## IPM Issue 16

Spring 2008 pp. 40–104

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Statistical appendix to IPM-16-2, providing growth accounting decompositions of business sector labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States for 1996-2000 and 2000-2006, plus provincial and industry-level decompositions of Canada’s labour productivity growth using Statistics Canada KLEMS data.

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