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Productivity Concepts, Trends And Prospects: An Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the … production. The measurement of productivity is fraught with conceptual and empirical issues, meaning that there can be a … particularly important measurement problems, namely the estimation of real output in the non-market sector where output is not …

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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 …

Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on …

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Should Productivity Be a Social Priority?

Heath, Joseph - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

time, greater consumer satisfaction, the elimination of poverty and greater public support for redistributive efforts to …

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Aggregate Labour Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States: Definitions, Trends and Measurement Issues

Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

measurement of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada and the United States. The paper examines all data sources for …

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The Measurement of Output and Productivity in the Health Care Sector in Canada: An Overview

Sharpe, Andrew; Bradley, Celeste; Messinger, Hans - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007

To achieve efficient allocation of resources in the health care sector, accurate measures of health care output and productivity are essential. According to official estimates of productivity produced by Statistics Canada, labour productivity in the business sector of the health care (excluding...

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A Survey of Indicators of Economic and Social Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 1999

In recent years, interest in aggregate or composite indicators of economic and social well-being at the community, national and international levels has grown greatly. For example, the release each year of the United Nations?Human Development Index (HDI) generates considerable media interest,...

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Deficit Elimination, Economic Performance and Social Progress in Canada in the 1990s

Drummond, Don - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to reduce interest rates to stimulate the economy and generate revenues. It was imperative that the deficit be eliminated. Tax rates were already high so the government had no...

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Interest Rates, Unemployment and Inflation in the 1990s: The Canadian Experience

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

in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U …

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The Economy Through Public Lens: Shifting Canadian Views of the Economy

Graves, Frank - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

portrayed by conventional measures of economic performance, and public perceptions of the state of the economy. He also … public's perception of economic performance and their attitudes toward the redistributive impact of the State and its broader …

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Moving from a GDP-Based to a Well-Being Based Metric of Economic Performance and Social Progress: Results from the Index of Economic Well-Being for OECD Countries, 1980-2009

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2009 period. It finds that in 2009 Norway had the highest level of economic...

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