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reference to measurement issues and technical change; discusses the micro- and macro-economic environment affecting productivity …
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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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According to Statistics Canada productivity estimates, the rate of growth of real output per hour in the construction industry in Canada over the 1981-2006 period was 0.53 per cent per year, one-third of the business sector average. This article examines evidence for and against the hypothesis...
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indexes of economic and social well-being. This reflects growing recognition of the important role macro-indicators can play … as a tool for evaluating trends in and levels of economic and social development and for assessing the impact of policy …-indicators that give an assessment of economic, labour market and social conditions or states of well-being. The report provides an …
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, both in Canada and abroad, to measure attributes and the well-being of society at the economic, health, environmental …
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Economic Well-being developed by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards. Each of the four components - consumption …, stocks of wealth, equality and economic security - are positively affected by productivity, and some in addition can in turn … developing countries. It is found that this relationship is even stronger than that between economic growth and poverty reduction …
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