Competitiveness

— Oct 3, 2024
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Our Incomes Are Falling Behind: Earnings in the Canadian Provinces and U.S. States, 2010-2022 finds that the median employment earnings—wages, salaries and self-employment income—of workers were lower in every Canadian province than in every state in the United States.

— Sep 24, 2024
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Weakness of Corporate Investment in Canada, 2001–2021

The Weakness of Corporate Investment in Canada, 2001-2021: Identification and Assessment finds that business investment in high-tech and innovative asset categories—crucial to raising living standards—has been significantly weaker in Canada than in the U.S. for the past 20 years, and the gap has grown larger since 2014.

— Aug 7, 2024
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A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007–2019

A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007-2019 finds that over the last business cycle (2007 to 2019), and long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Canada was already underperforming other advanced countries on important investment, employment and productivity measures that are key to higher living standards.

— Jul 23, 2024
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We're Getting Poorer

We’re getting poorer: GDP per Capita in Canada and the OECD, 2002 - 2060 is a new study that finds Canada had the third-lowest growth in GDP per person—a broad measure of living standards—from 2014 to 2022 among 30 advanced economies in the OECD.

— Jul 11, 2024
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Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States over the Past Five Decades

Comparing the Investment Performances of Canada and the United States Over the Past Five Decades is a new study that finds weak business investment in technologies that increase worker productivity over the past decade is stifling Canada’s economic growth and suppressing improvements in Canadian living standards when compared to other OECD countries—especially the United States, which has only grown in these areas.

— May 16, 2024
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Changes in Per-Person GDP (Income): 1985 to 2023

Changes in Per-Person GDP (Income): 1985 to 2023 finds that from 2019 to 2023, Canadian living standards declined—and as of the end of 2023, the decline had not yet ended.

— May 10, 2024
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Canada Stills Needs To Open Up To Competition

Canada Stills Needs To Open Up To Competition, written by Senior Fellow Vincent Geloso, calculates how much of the Canadian economy is protected from competition because of government intervention, and discusses how barriers to competition impose higher costs and lower living standards on Canadians.

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