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distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …
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; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …
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, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and … several years. They note, for example, that the decline in the labour share in Canada since 1994 has not been due to any …
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This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...
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In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … Canada in the 1990s. The author divides Canadian manufacturing industries into five groups according to their sensitivity to …
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …
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In this chapter, Jim Stanford agrees that measures were needed to eliminate the deficit. But he argues that Paul Martin's program spending cuts were larger than necessary and caused real pain in many areas of Canadian life. He shows that a strategy in which program spending was frozen in nominal...
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income security system. He concludes that on the whole the emerging post-welfare state will better serve Canada's evolving …
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and graduate education have expanded dramatically, leading many more undergraduates to stay in Canada for their graduate … graduate programs, the proportion living outside Canada is and has always been high, reflecting a very international mix of … subsequently living and working in Canada, and especially in British Columbia, is much higher than the share of Canadian citizens …
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can be explained by the acceptance of the federal government of the economic argument that Canada had to switch to a value …
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