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Population Aging, Productivity, and Living Standards

Scarth, William - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, William Scarth examines the relationship between population aging, productivity and growth in living standards and reaches a more optimistic conclusion about the effects of aging on productivity. Indeed, he finding that aging may in fact lead to increases in productivity, even...

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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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Investing in Aboriginal Education in Canada: An Economic Perspective

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

The objective of this paper is to summarize the research done by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) on the economic impacts of improving levels of Aboriginal education. Improving the social and economic well-being of the Aboriginal population is not only a moral imperative; it is...

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The Attitudes of Canadians to Productivity: Balancing Standard of Living and Quality of Life

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

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our standard of living and our quality of life is a powerful one for Canadians generally. The economic citizen who emerges from Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms...

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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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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

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

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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Productivity Concepts, Trends And Prospects: An Overview

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

In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the relationship between the output of goods and...

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An Index of Labour Market Well-being for OECD Countries

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

This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...

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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001

income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … professional occupations; growing wage inequality; and the downward trend in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …. The third section examines divergent trends in the two labour markets, including the widening of the unemployment rate gap …

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The State of Private Sector Electronic Labour Exchange Services in Canada

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

This report has two aims. The first is to provide a descriptive overview of the services offered by private sector electronic labour exchanges (ELEs) in Canada. The second is to assess those services in terms of their likely effects on labour market matching, their accessibility, and the degree...

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