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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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demographic shifts on labour force participation in Canada. They use an accounting framework and plausible trend participation … Canada. They find that the ageing of the population has already started to exert downward pressure on the aggregate … participation rate in Canada due to longer life expectancy and the resulting growing proportion of the population in the low …
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In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in … force participation in the 1990s in Canada relative to the United States, focus on supply-side factors at play in the … reduce aggregate participation. Enrolment rates for teenagers increased 7 percentage points in Canada between 1989 and 1997 …
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The participation rate of women aged 25-64 rose greatly in the 1970s and 1980s, but has stagnated in the 1990s. In principle, this development could reflect either the poor growth performance of the economy this decade or the completion of the integration of women into the labour force. In the...
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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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