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This report is intended to complement Future Labour Supply and Demand 101: A Guide to Analysing and Predicting Occupational Trends, a technical document commissioned by the Forum of Labour Market Ministers (FLMM) Labour Market Information Working Group (LMIWG) with the aim of achieving greater...
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This report examines human resource and skills issues pertaining to the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade … presents strategies being implemented by companies and industry associations to address human resource and skills challenges …
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This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of Canadian natural resource industries is also compared with...
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The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector. A number of possible factors contributing to the...
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The gap between Canadian and U.S. living standards widened considerably in the 1990s. Americans, on average, were 16 per cent better off in terms of real personal income per capita in 2000 than in 1989, while Canadians experienced a 5 percent increase in real incomes. The thesis of this paper is...
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invest in the skills of their workers. Apprenticeship training is often viewed as a possible solution to this challenge. The … indicators suggest that skills shortages in the manufacturing sector are a result of a strong overall labour market rather than … dependent on sector specific developments. Growing skills shortages underline the importance for the manufacturing to train and …
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Skills, innovation and human capital as they feature prominently on the policy agenda of industrialized countries … achieved through a better understanding of the relationship between the skills developed through formal education and their …
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The skills issue is currently at or near the top of the federal government’s policy agenda, given its importance for … assessment of Canada’s record in education and skills is quite positive. He finds that relative to other OECD countries, Canada … with non-university, post-secondary education in the OECD; and that the country’s literacy skills, particularly for the …
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Of the three major age groups, youth (aged 15-24), experienced the largest fall in labour force participation and accounted for the lion’s share of the aggregate decline. Consequently, an understanding of the factors behind this development is essential to an overall understanding of the fall...
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In 2005, the CSLS published a report that examined spending on information and communication technology (ICT) in Canada and the United States between 1987 and 2004. It found that Canadian firms lagged considerably behind US firms in ICT spending and that this situation accounted to some extent...
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