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Unbundling Canada's Weak Productivity Performance

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling...

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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Selected OECD Countries, 1981 - 2007

Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...

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Measuring Economic Security in Insecure Times: New Perspectives, New Events, and the Index of Economic Well-being

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...

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The Economic Crises Through the Lens of Economic Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

2008 – the month at which employment peaked in Canada – and May 2009, net employment fell by 362,500 persons. The negative … cent in recent years, receive regular EI benefits, reflecting the concentration of employment losses among long term full …

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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Canada and the Provinces, 1981 - 2008

Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...

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The Paradox of Market-Oriented Public Policy and Poor Productivity Growth in Canada

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

In recent decades, governments in Canada have pursued market-oriented policies at both the macro and micro levels. Economists believe that such policies should foster productivity growth. Since 2000, however, productivity growth in Canada has been dismal, much below that in the United States and...

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Living Standards Domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This paper, which represents the living standards domain of the new Canadian Index of Wellbeing, provides a comprehensive overview of trends in a number of indicators of living standards over the 1981-2008 period in Canada. Part one examines trends in average and median income and wealth...

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Nonmarket networks among migrants

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tanabe, Sakiko - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2003

/year-specific correlated shocks, show that (1) the relative size of the migrant population in the market decreases employment probabilities of … new migrants (negative substitution effect), (2) the employment probability of previous migrants increases those of new … migrants (positive externalities), and (3) when the employment probability of previous migrants approaches to unity, the size …

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Some urban facts of life

Ruel, Marie T.; Haddad, Lawrence James; Garrett, James L. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1999

This review of recent literature explores the challenges to urban food and nutrition security in the rapidly urbanizing developing world. The premise of the manuscript is that the causes of malnutrition and food insecurity in urban and rural areas are different due primarily to a number of...

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Gender differences in agricultural productivity

Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

This paper reviews the econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity. It provides a methodological overview and a critique of (1) production function-based estimates of technical and labor productivity differences by gender, (2) individual (gender-disaggregated) labor...

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