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The Attitudes of Canadians to Productivity: Balancing Standard of Living and Quality of Life

Graves, Frank; Jenkins, Richard - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our standard of living and our quality of life is a powerful one for Canadians generally. The economic citizen who emerges from Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms...

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Parallel Imports and Innovation in an Emerging Economy

Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their …. The impact of PI on innovation is determined by the degree of heterogeneity between firms and trade costs. Increasing … market, hence increases its innovation efforts. A tariff policy accompanied by opening borders to PI only increases welfare …

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Social Policy and Productivity Growth: What are the Linkages?

Harris, Richard G. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Richard Harris points out that a traditional view has been that there is an inherent conflict between economic efficiency and social equality, a view neatly summarized in the title of Okun's famous book, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Trade-off (1975). This view gained renewed...

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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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Economic and Environmental Effectiveness of a Technology-based Climate Protocol

Carraro, Carlo; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

emission control with international cooperation on climate-related technological innovation and diffusion. This idea – recently … innovation and diffusion than when they cooperate on emission abatement. However, technological cooperation – without any …

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Strategic Immigration Policies and Welfare in Heterogeneous Countries

Fujita, Masahisa; Weber, Shlomo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from “the rest of the world”. The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and...

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