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What Explains the Canada-U.S. Software Investment Intensity Gap?

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

In 2012, business sector software investment per worker in Canada was 40.7 per cent of that in the United States. The objective of this report is to deepen our understanding of the reasons for which Canadian businesses invest substantially less in software than their U.S. counterparts. The...

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Sustainable Governance Indicators

Sharpe, Andrew; Kessler, Anke; Thunert, Martin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

A strong case can be made that the quality of governance provided by the government of Canada deteriorated somewhat from May 2011 to May 2013. While the government has constructed high-quality governance structures and implemented effective policies in many areas over many decades, the actions...

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Convergence Across Provincial Economies in Canada: Trends, Drivers, and Implications

Capeluck, Evan - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

regional tensions and lead to demands for further redistribution of wealth. The objective of this study is to report on the …

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An Analysis of the Canada-U.S. ICT Investment Gap: An Update to 2013

Thomas, Jasmin - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015

Canada’s productivity performance reflects in large part our innovation record, both in terms of business sector R&D and information and communications technology (ICT) investment. The objective of this report is to examine the country’s ICT investment performance since 2000. The key finding...

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Has Quebec’s Standard of Living Been Catching Up?

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

Quebec’s relative growth performance with Ontario has always been an issue of concern for economic historians. In his paper Pierre Fortin discusses trends in Quebec’s real domestic income relative to that in Ontario over the last half-century. He finds that per capita real domestic income in...

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Canada 2030: An Agenda for Sustainable Development

Kindornay, Shannon; Standards, Centre for the Study of … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2015

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their end date in 2015, negotiations are ramping up at the United Nations for the establishment of a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, to be announced in September this year, will replace the MDGs and serve as a universal...

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Are the Kids All Right? Intergenerational Mobility and Child Well-being in Canada

Corak, Miles - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

underlying causes and effects. Corak finds that, except for those families who are very well off and able to transfer wealth to …

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Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Lars Osberg makes the case in his paper that the major success story of Canadian social policy in the twentieth century has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the poverty line measured as one-half median equivalent...

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Living Standards Domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

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

examines trends in average and median income and wealth indicators in Canada. Part two looks at the distribution of the income … and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … quintile has received the lion’s share of rising income and wealth. Looking at the nine headline indicators for which time …

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