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Les economistes du travail ont elabore des modeles theoriques complexes et mene des analyses econometriques tres avancees pour analyser le processus de prise de decisions par les menages. Toutefois, a cet accent mis sur l'element offre du marche du travail n'ont pas correspondu des analyses...
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In recent years, cities have become increasingly interested in their ability to generate, attract and retain human capital. One measure of human capital is employment in science- and engineering-based occupations. This paper provides a comparison of the employment shares of these specialized...
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Des changements fondamentaux ont pris place dans le marche du travail et au sein des entreprises au cours des annees 1980 et 1990. Dans certains cas, on comprend ce qui s'est produit, sans toutefois en connaitre les causes. Dans d'autres cas, on ne dispose pas des donnees qui permettraient de...
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Controlling for observable worker attributes, we find that computer use is associated with a wage premium of at most 14%. Following Dinardo and Pischke (1997), we examine the wage premium associated with other tools used on the job. While these authors find a significant wage premium for the use...
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-2001. Cette comparaison donne une idee de la performance des villes canadiennes relativement a leurs analogues americaines au …
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Dans la presente etude, nous documentons les liens existant entre les salaires et l'utilisation d'ordinateurs. Apres avoir pris en compte les caracteristiques observables des travailleurs, nous constatons que l'utilisation des ordinateurs est associee a un avantage salarial qui peut atteindre,...
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Le present article donne la comparaison de la taille et de la composition de l'emploi dans le secteur des sciences et du genie au Canada et aux Etats Unis. Nous examinons la part de l'emploi remunere et des gains tires d'un emploi remunere imputables a la main d'oeuvre en sciences et en genie...
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Canada's productivity performance compared with that of the United State, and the impact of the recent Canadian productivity …
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Fundamental changes have taken place in the labour market and among firms in the 1980s and 1990s. In some cases we understand what has occurred, but notwhy. In other cases the data do not exist to shed light on exactly what is happening, let alone why. Changes in the labour market are often...
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Labour economists have developed elaborate theoretical models and conducted very advanced econometric analysis of the decision making of households. But this emphasis on the supply side of the labour market has not been matched by any corresponding degree of sophistication in empirical analysis...
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