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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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In 2005, the CSLS published a report that examined spending on information and communication technology (ICT) in Canada … spending and that this situation accounted to some extent for the lower labour productivity growth experienced in Canada. This … ICT investment spending in the United States in 2005 and 2006 continued to outpace that in Canada, increasing an average …
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It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States … this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment in both Canada and the United States and attempts to explain why …
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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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Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …
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In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …
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in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …
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is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …
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