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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s

Heisz, Andrew; Jackson, Andrew; Picot, Garnett - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

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The Long View: Labour Productivity, Labour Income and Living Standards in Canada

Fisher, Tony; Hostland, Doug - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and … the non-labour share (composed of profits, interest and investment income, and incorporated business income) in national … income tend to revert to their historical means over the 1926-2001 historical period, although divergences may last for …

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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?

Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...

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