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b) manufacturing
c) business services
b) labour input
d) innovation
8. Which of the following factors has allowed Canadian manufacturing to increase its
competitiveness with the U.S. over the period 1990-97:
a) relative growth in labour compensation
11. Which of the following are plausible explanations for the Canada-U.S productivity
gap:
a) Canada has a declining share of North American FDI
b) Canada has relatively more small firms than the U.S. and small firms are
generally less technology intensive
c) The Canadian economy is more natural resource intensive than the U.S.
economy
d) U.S. manufacturing is considerably more R&D intensive than Canadian
manufacturing
12. Which province has the highest labour productivity in Canada:
a) British Columbia
b) Alberta
c) Ontario
d) Quebec
13. For Canada to improve it's productivity it could build on it's strengths. In which of
the following areas was Canadian performance stronger than that of the U.S in 1999:
a) A relative abundance of knowledge workers