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Report on Productivity Trends in Selected Natural Resource Industries in Canada

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

The purpose of this report is to shed light on the dynamics and determinants of productivity growth in nine selected … importance of productivity growth is reviewed, and observations are made on the contribution of natural resource industries to … aggregate productivity growth; brief summaries on productivity and its determinants are presented for each of the nine …

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The McKinsey Global Institute Productivity Studies: Lessons for Canada

Kellison, Matt - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2004

analyzing international productivity levels from both economic and management perspectives. MGI uses microeconomic analysis on a … sector-by-sector level to study the effects that industry decisions ultimately have on national productivity. For the most … part the productivity drivers identified by MGI can be grouped into three broad areas: competitive factors (concentration …

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The Impact of Productivity Growth on Government Fiscal Balances

Dungan, Peter - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

-run productivity growth rates using elements of the FOCUS macroeconometric model to conduct simulations on a 'base-case' projection of … points out changes in productivity growth rates can occur for a variety of reasons and can have many different possible …

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The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005

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

This report presents estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for a representative sample of Canadian households in 1999 and 2005. The results indicate that there was only modest growth in the average Canadian household’s total command over economic resources in...

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North American Economic Integration and Globalization

Gunderson, Morley - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Morley Gunderson presents an overview of issues related to North American economic integration and globalization. He provides a particularly balanced perspective, a rarity in this area of highly charged, ideology-driven and emotional debate. He first notes that economic integration has both a...

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Six Pillars of Social Policy: The State of Pensions and Health Care in Canada

Robson, William B. P. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

William B.P. Robson, a co-author with David Slater of a series of papers on pension issues, has written an ambitious survey of the state of Canadian economic policy in the areas of pensions and health care. He argues that it is appropriate to tackle both issues in the same paper because they are...

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The Financial Circumstances of Elderly Canadians and the Implications for the Design of Canada’s Retirement Income System

Hamilton, Malcolm - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

It is well recognized that the incomes of the elderly are on average much lower than those of the non-elderly reflecting their limited participation in the labour market. But do the elderly have lower levels of economic well-being? Indeed, the financial circumstances of the elderly differ...

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The Economic and Social Consequences of Fiscal Retrenchment in Canada in the 1990s

Stanford, Jim - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Jim Stanford agrees that measures were needed to eliminate the deficit. But he argues that Paul Martin's program spending cuts were larger than necessary and caused real pain in many areas of Canadian life. He shows that a strategy in which program spending was frozen in nominal...

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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 …

concludes that it is very difficult to gauge the effectiveness of government policy based on long-term productivity arguments …

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Overview of the Festschrift

Grady, Patrick; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Festschrift literally means “celebration-writing” in German. And that is what this volume is. It celebrates the remarkable career of David Slater, which in the best Queen’s University tradition of John Deutsch and Clifford Clark spanned academia and public service, on the occasion of his...

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