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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001

The gap between Canadian and U.S. living standards widened considerably in the 1990s. Americans, on average, were 16 per cent better off in terms of real personal income per capita in 2000 than in 1989, while Canadians experienced a 5 percent increase in real incomes. The thesis of this paper is...

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Real estate brokers: do they inflate housing prices? The case of France

Violand, Wendy; Simon, Arnaud - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

This study examines the impact of real estate brokers on the price of residential properties sold in 2005 in twelve French cities. The results indicate that brokers increase the prices of properties they sell even though they appear to have heterogeneous behaviours across cities. The impact of...

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Stratégie optimale de stockage de déchets radioactifs à vie longue sous contrainte de capacité

Villeneuve, Bertrand - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

The paper models a program of high‐activity nuclear‐waste management. The physics of cooling incites to store hot waste for a while to spare scarce disposal volume: indeed, colder parcels may be put in tighter conditions. The optimal unconstrained duration of storage is characterized....

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Apprenticeship in Canada: A Training System Under Siege?

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 1999

This paper first reviews apprenticeship trends in Canada over the last two decades. It then examines prospects for labour market conditions for the total economy and for the construction sector to the year 2005 based on scenarios developed by the forecasting firm Informetrica for the IAS...

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The Apprenticeship System in Canada: Trends and Issues

Sharpe, Andrew; Gibson, James - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

This report provides an overview of the trends and issues related to the apprenticeship system in Canada. It first discusses theoretical perspectives on apprenticeship, then reviews the institutional features of apprenticeship systems in Canada and in other countries. The report concludes that...

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Not in my Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Brunello, Giorgio; Bassanini, Andrea; Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

There is growing evidence that social pressure shapes firms' behavior. Given how sensitive communities are to downsizing, this suggests that firms are likely to be under strong social pressure when considering reducing employment. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social...

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Impact of Trade Reforms in Tunisia on the Elasticity of Labor Demand

Mouelhi, Rim; Ghazali, Monia - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

The impact of trade reforms on the labor market may transit through many channels. One of these is the effect on labor … this relationship. This paper attempts to extend the work of Hasan et al. (2003) by disaggregating labor into skilled and … unskilled categories in order to analyze the effects of trade policies on labor demand elasticities by skill in Tunisia. We use …

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A Companion Guide to Analyzing and Projecting Occupational Trends

Achkar, Souleima El - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

This report is intended to complement Future Labour Supply and Demand 101: A Guide to Analysing and Predicting Occupational Trends, a technical document commissioned by the Forum of Labour Market Ministers (FLMM) Labour Market Information Working Group (LMIWG) with the aim of achieving greater...

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Médecins généralistes à faibles revenus : une préférence pour le loisir ?

Samson, Anne-Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

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