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La haute technologie est-elle l'exclusivite des entreprises ou peut-elle s'appliquer a l'ensemble d'un secteur d'activite? Donnees recueillies aupres des nouvelles entreprises axee...

Gellatly, Guy; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

connexes sur l'evolution technologique et l'innovation ont mene a l'elaboration de systemes visant a classer les secteurs d … tiennent pas compte du degre d'innovation, ni des competences du capital humain que l'on retrouve dans certains secteurs d …

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The Canada-Atlantic Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap: A Detailed Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …

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Technology Use, Training and Plant-specific Knowledge in Manufacturing Establishments

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R.; Gray, Tara - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...

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Are There High-tech Industries or Only High-tech Firms? Evidence from New Technology-based Firms

Gellatly, Guy; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

. First, it constitutes a multidimensional approach to industry classification. As different concepts - such as innovation …

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L'utilisation de la technologie, la formation et les connaissances specifiques dans les etablissements de fabrication

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R.; Gray, Tara - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

La presente etude traite des facteurs qui influent sur la decision de l'entreprise de former le personnel a la lumiere des donnees de plusieurs enquetes recentes de Statistique Canada, qui portaient sur l'utilisation des technologies de pointe dans les entreprises de fabrication canadiennes....

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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A Detailed Analysis of Productivity Trends in the Canadian Forest Products Sector

Avillez, Ricardo de - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the productivity...

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Importance des signaux de competence pour l'obtention d'un emploi et de l'avancement

Oreopoulos, Philip; Heisz, Andrew - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

Dans un cadre ou la formation et les perspectives d'avancement dependent des previsions initiales de competence, les effets sur les salaires des signaux de competence initiale peuvent se manifester bien au-dela de la periode ou l'on connait bien les qualites d'un travailleur. Ce document propose...

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La formation comme strategie en matiere de ressources humaines : la reaction aux penuries de personnel et au changement technologique

Baldwin, John R.; Peters, Valerie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

Nous examinons dans le present document de quelles facons la situation sur le plan de l'innovation par opposition a l … non-utilisateurs de telles technologies d'offrir des programmes de formation. A ce niveau, la situation sur le plan de l'innovation … entendre que l'innovation exige non pas tant de nouvelles competences propres aux professions (meme s'il ne fait aucun doute …

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