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This paper first reviews apprenticeship trends in Canada over the last two decades. It then examines prospects for labour market conditions for the total economy and for the construction sector to the year 2005 based on scenarios developed by the forecasting firm Informetrica for the IAS...
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The apprenticeship system is generally associated with the construction industry. However, the manufacturing industry actually employs a greater amount of persons in apprenticeable occupations than construction. With the rise in value of the Canadian dollar and increased international...
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be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …
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concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … causal impact on productivity, as well as a more nuanced approach to policy in this area. In this chapter, Arthur Sweetman … the impact of education on earnings at the individual level and on productivity at the macroeconomic level, and on issues …
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the crucial, but often ignored, role of productivity in the maintenance of natural capital sustainability. Olewiler …
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In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency … efficiency or productivity of a public service requires a measurement of the value or utility generated by the service. However … ironically undermined the effectiveness and productivity of the public and voluntary sectors. She illustrates the perverse …
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In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …
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In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …
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cent of that in Ontario in 1960 to 86 per cent in 1999. He decomposes this change into three sources: productivity …
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Investment is one of the main drivers of productivity growth, which is the key determinant of living standards in the … labour productivity, as was the case in the last 25 years. Weak labour productivity growth in BC would in turn translate into …
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