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Economic Activity of the On-Reserve Aboriginal Identity Population in Canada: Gross Domestic Product Estimates for Indian Reserves, 2000 and 2005

Tsiroulnitchenko, Evguenia; Hazell, Elspeth - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report develops estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for reserves in Canada by estimating total earnings for reserves and multiplying these results by the national share of total earnings in income-based GDP. Two estimation approaches are used in the analysis. The first, which is the...

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The Potential Contribution of Aboriginal Canadians to Labour Force, Employment, Productivity and Output Growth in Canada, 2001-2017

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-Francois; Lapointe, Simon - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007

challenges facing the Canadian economy: slower labour force growth and lackluster labour productivity growth. In fact, we find … Canadians to the total growth of the labour force between 2001 and 2017 is projected to be up to 7.39 per cent of the total … labour force growth, much higher than their projected 3.37 per cent share of the working age population in 2017. Finally, we …

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Investing in Aboriginal Education in Canada: An Economic Perspective

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

The objective of this paper is to summarize the research done by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) on the economic impacts of improving levels of Aboriginal education. Improving the social and economic well-being of the Aboriginal population is not only a moral imperative; it is...

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The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force, Output and the Fiscal Balance

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

Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. Based on the methodology developed in Sharpe, Arsenault and Lapointe (2007), we estimate the effect of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians on labour...

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Lessons for Canada from International Productivity Experience

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2006

growth rates and levels in OECD countries. The second section presents some general lessons from the productivity performance … of OECD countries and international evidence of productivity drivers based on the OECD growth project and productivity …

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The Relationship between ICT Investment and Productivity in the Canadian Economy: A Review of the Evidence

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2006

behind the acceleration of productivity growth in Canada and the United States since 1996. However, the potential of ICT has … not been fully exploited and we will continue to see significant ICT contributions to productivity growth in coming years …

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Future Productivity Growth in Canada and Implications for the Canada Pension Plan

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2006

This is organized into three main parts. The first section provides a perspective on future productivity growth in … productivity growth, and reviews productivity projections in Canada and the United States. The second section discusses the … relationship between productivity growth and the real earnings of workers, and examines the implications of different productivity …

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Indicators of Labour Market Conditions in Canada

Sharpe, Andrew; Shaker, Anne-Marie - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007

There are three main objectives for this report. The first is to ascertain to what degree the unemployment rate is an adequate predictor of labour market conditions in the context of the changing economy. Labour market conditions refer to the state of the labour market and encompass different...

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Deficit Elimination, Economic Performance and Social Progress in Canada in the 1990s

Drummond, Don - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to reduce interest rates to stimulate the economy and generate revenues. It was imperative that the deficit be eliminated. Tax rates were already high so the government had no...

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Interest Rates, Unemployment and Inflation in the 1990s: The Canadian Experience

Fortin, Pierre - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

that he developed throughout the decade. While not denying that the US economic slowdown in the early 1990s reduced growth …

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