We investigate the impact of occupational safety and health (OSH) and environmental regulation on the rate of growth of total factor productivity (TFP) in the Quebec manufacturing sector during the 1985–88 period. Our results show that environmental regulation and OSH protective reassignments...

This paper is the first to examine empirically how work sharing influences workers' productivity, using a unique data set from a large Canadian firm. This firm has adopted a work sharing scheme for one year, which allows comparison of workers' productivity with and without the work sharing...

The Enviroclub initiative was developed by three federal government agencies - Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Environment Canada, and the National Research Council Canada - and launched in 2001 to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in improving their profitability...

[fre] La protection de l’environnement se fait-elle automatiquement au détriment de la rentabilité des entreprises ? Cet article tend à démontrer que performance environnementale et économique ne sont pas toujours substituts mais peuvent être complémentaires pour l’entreprise. À...

This paper is a first effort to investigate the overall effectiveness of policies adopted by a Canadian board dealing with occupational safety and health (OSH) in improving workplace health and safety. More specifically, considering all the most important aspects of government intervention in...

Some twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter challenged conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business by declaring that well-designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of...