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Comparing Canada's two employment surveys
Introduction
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Measuring improvements in Canadian standards of living
How much has the standard of living of Canadians improved over the last half century or so?
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Defining and measuring Canada's population
Statistics Canada estimates the size of Canada’s population as 41,465,298 on October 1, 2024.
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The use of multiplicative decompositions in economic analysis
Multiplicative decompositions are often used in economics, although they may not always be thought of as such.
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Real GDP per capita vs real HDI per capita since 2019
Why have they evolved so differently? What are the implications?
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An interesting and not widely understood aspect of the Labour Force Survey
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Accounting for the decline of Canada's real GDP per capita since mid 2022
This paper offers an explanation as to why Canada’s real GDP per capita has been declining since mid 2022.
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Assessing Canada's potential output growth
The recent surge in population growth and prolonged weakness in labour productivity make it difficult to discern Canada's potential economic growth at…
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What can be done to reverse the decline of Canada's real GDP per capita?
There has been much concern among economists and policymakers in Canada recently about the decline in real GDP per capita since mid 2022.
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What drives changes in real GDP per capita?
Economists often use the trend in real GDP per capita as a rough proxy for the trend in overall welfare.
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Interpreting recent productivity performance in Canada
Exploring why productivity has been decreasing recently
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The state of the Canadian household sector
Coping with higher interest rates and real wage losses due to unanticipated inflation, are households approaching a crisis or are they still in…
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