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State of the Evidence on Health as a Determinant of Productivity

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

Canada's labour productivity performance has been abysmal since 2000, both relative to our historical experience and to … work. Canada's potential level of "social productivity" is lower because of this situation. This is an output shortfall …

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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

Index (HDI) generates considerable media interest, particularly in Canada. Equally, the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI … in debates on the inadequacies of GDP as a welfare measure. Many communities in Canada and in the United States have … developed for Canada; single versus multiple indicator approaches; money versus composite indicators; weighting issues in …

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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 …

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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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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...

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The State of Knowledge on the Role and Impact of Labour Market Information: A Survey of the Canadian Evidence

Murray, Alexander - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

and impact of LMI in Canada, to assess the contribution of recent research to that knowledge, and to outline areas in …

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New Estimates of Labour, Capital and Multifactor Productivity Growth and Levels for Canadian Provinces at the Three-digit NAICS Level, 1997-2007

Sharpe, Andrew; Thomson, Eric - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for the Canadian provinces by industry for the 1997-2007 period at the market sector, two-digit, and three-digit NAICS industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour...

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What Explains the Canada-U.S. Software Investment Intensity Gap?

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

In 2012, business sector software investment per worker in Canada was 40.7 per cent of that in the United States. The … in software than their U.S. counterparts. The report reviews the state of the software investment landscape in Canada …

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A Detailed Analysis of Productivity Trends in the Canadian Forest Products Sector

Avillez, Ricardo de - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the productivity...

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The Impact of the Oil Boom on Canada's Labour Productivity Performance

Sharpe, Andrew; Waslander, Bert - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

Canada since 2000 through an exploration of the various channels, both direct and indirect, by which the oil and gas sector …

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