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is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …
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. The Centre for the Study of Living Standards and Human Resources Development Canada then organized two sessions on labour …
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demographic shifts on labour force participation in Canada. They use an accounting framework and plausible trend participation … Canada. They find that the ageing of the population has already started to exert downward pressure on the aggregate … participation rate in Canada due to longer life expectancy and the resulting growing proportion of the population in the low …
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In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in … force participation in the 1990s in Canada relative to the United States, focus on supply-side factors at play in the … reduce aggregate participation. Enrolment rates for teenagers increased 7 percentage points in Canada between 1989 and 1997 …
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The participation rate of women aged 25-64 rose greatly in the 1970s and 1980s, but has stagnated in the 1990s. In principle, this development could reflect either the poor growth performance of the economy this decade or the completion of the integration of women into the labour force. In the...
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participation in Canada in the 1990s. In the first article in the symposium, Pierre Fortin and Mario Fortin attempt to determine the …
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The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light … on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined …
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economies and that Canada's inferior income performance reflected cyclical factors associated with poor macroeconomic policy … economic and labour market developments in Canada and the United States in the 1989-2000 period, looking at trends in real …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …
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In 2005, the CSLS published a report that examined spending on information and communication technology (ICT) in Canada … spending and that this situation accounted to some extent for the lower labour productivity growth experienced in Canada. This … ICT investment spending in the United States in 2005 and 2006 continued to outpace that in Canada, increasing an average …
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In 2008, Statistics Canada, for the first time, made available estimates of information and communication technology … the basic data on ICT investment and ICT investment per worker in Canada and the ten provinces over the 1981-2007 period …
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