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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
earnings, as well as skills acquisition that affects future returns from working and the uncertainty surrounding these future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650216
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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The Impact of Health on Productivity: Macro and Microeconomic Evidence and Policy Implications
Tompa, Emile - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
This chapter by Emile Tompa provides a comprehensive review of the theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence of the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well beyond the obvious effect of health on capacity to work both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650210
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Working Smarter: Education and Productivity
Sweetman, Arthur - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Skills, innovation and human capital as they feature prominently on the policy agenda of industrialized countries … achieved through a better understanding of the relationship between the skills developed through formal education and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481812
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The Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway: A Situational Analysis of Human Resources Needs
Achkar, Souleima El - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report examines human resource and skills issues pertaining to the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade … presents strategies being implemented by companies and industry associations to address human resource and skills challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985517
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Education and Skills: An Assessment of Recent Canadian Experience
Riddell, W. Craig - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
The skills issue is currently at or near the top of the federal government’s policy agenda, given its importance for … assessment of Canada’s record in education and skills is quite positive. He finds that relative to other OECD countries, Canada … with non-university, post-secondary education in the OECD; and that the country’s literacy skills, particularly for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518924
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Five Deaths a Day: Workplace Fatalities in Canada, 1993-2005
Sharpe, Andrew; Hardt, Jill - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2006
According to data collected by the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, 1,097 workplace fatalities were recorded in Canada in 2005, up from 758 in 1993. As Canadians work on average 230 days per year, this means that there were nearly five work-related deaths per work day in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518930
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292733
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292076