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This eleventh issue of the International Productivity Monitor, published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, contains seven articles on a range of topics: policies to improve productivity growth in Canada; the causes of lower information and communications technology investment in...
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This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...
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The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...
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the economic impacts of improving levels of Aboriginal education. Improving the social and economic well-being of the … shortage caused by Canada’s aging population and low birth rate. We estimate that complete closure of both the education and …
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between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …
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Canada’s recent experience in education and skill formation. In his paper, W. Craig Riddell attempts such an assessment. He … provides a careful examination of trends in education expenditures and outcomes in Canada compared to other countries, looks at … trends in the incidence of education, and analyzes the link between education and labour market success. Riddell’s overall …
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The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with output per hour lower in 2000 than in 1977. In this article Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards examines productivity trends in this sector and...
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concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … achieved through a better understanding of the relationship between the skills developed through formal education and their … points out, "the issue is not whether education has benefits but, rather, the magnitude of its 'true' benefits, the benefits …
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Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. This report estimates the potential benefit for the Canadian economy of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians. We find that increasing the number of...
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