A Detailed Analysis of Nova Scotia’s Productivity Performance, 1997-2010

Abstract

Despite labour productivity growth somewhat above the national average over the 19972000 period, Nova Scotia’s level of business sector output per hour in 2010 was only 75.7 per cent that of Canada. This report provides a detailed analysis of Nova Scotia’s labour and capital productivity performance and the factors behind this performance. It identifies weak machinery and equipment investment and low levels of business R&D as the two factors most responsible for the province’s productivity gap.

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