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Working Smarter: Education and Productivity
Sweetman, Arthur - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Skills, innovation and human capital as they feature prominently on the policy agenda of industrialized countries concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most conventional policy instrument of governments in pursuing these...
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Understanding Productivity and Income Differentials Among OECD Countries: A Survey
Ark, Bart van - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … total population. Labour productivity is determined by within-industry productivity growth rates and inter-sectoral shifts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650205
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The Impact of Health on Productivity: Macro and Microeconomic Evidence and Policy Implications
Tompa, Emile - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
This chapter by Emile Tompa provides a comprehensive review of the theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence of the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well beyond the obvious effect of health on capacity to work both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650210
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A Detailed Analysis of Productivity Trends in the Canadian Forest Products Sector
Avillez, Ricardo de - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014
potential barriers to productivity growth and discussing policies that could enable faster growth. Given the increasing role of … countries with low-labour costs in several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165238
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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518911
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274402
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489036
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982352
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650218