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The rising disparities, to the detriment of less qualified workers, is certainly one of the most worrisome trends to which the developed countries have to face. Nevertheless, this deteriorating didn't have the same effects in all the countries. Indeed, in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the incomes...
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In Canada, most of the private placements are offered by small and unprofitable entrepreneurial ventures -- for which the asymmetry of information and adverse selection problems are particularly acute. Private placements are a very important source of equity for these emerging businesses. In...
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This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
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This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
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the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …
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After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and the econometrician. We document the two uses that have been made of these data: the construction of...
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his description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
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his description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …
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total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the Quebec manufacturing sector. This allows us to investigate more fully the …: 1) the contemporaneous impact of environmental regulation on productivity is negative, 2) the opposite result is …
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We consider the response to incentives as an explanation for productivity differences within a firm that paid its … workers piece rates. We provide a framework within which observed productivity differences can be decomposed into two parts … incentives than did the men, the average difference is not statistically significant. The productivity differential that men …
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