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Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship
Meredith, John - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Canadian apprenticeship policy has recently turned to direct subsidies for participants, including a federal tax incentive for employers. Some assumptions underlying the employer subsidy are: that apprenticeship training is a principal contributor to the skilled trades labour supply; that...
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Does Online Search Crowd Out Traditional Search and Improve Matching Efficiency? Evidence from Craigslist
Kroft, Kory; Pope, Devin G. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Ever since the seminal work of Stigler (1962), economists have recognized that information in markets is costly to acquire and can lead to “search frictionsâ€. The remarkable growth in online search has substantially lowered the cost of information acquisition. Despite this, there is...
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An Economic Approach to the Measurement of Productivity Growth Using Differences Instead of Ratios
Diewert, Erwin; Mizobuchi, Hideyuki - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
difference methodology in order to decompose the growth of a new measure of labour productivity into additive explanatory factors …. This new measure of labour productivity takes into account changes in the terms of trade. We apply our methodology to …
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On the Tang and Wang Decomposition of Labour Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects
Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2008
Tang and Wang provided a decomposition of economy wide labour productivity into sectoral contribution effects. The … related to another decomposition due to Gini and analyzed by Balk. Overall growth in labour productivity is due to three … factors: (i) growth in the labour productivity of individual sectors; (ii) changes in real output prices of the sectors and …
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Decompositions of Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects
Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
The paper provides some new decompositions of labour productivity growth and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth … productivity growth rate turns out to depend on the sectoral productivity growth rates, output price effects and changes in …
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Decompositions of Productivity Growth into Sectoral Effects: Some Puzzles Explained
Diewert, Walter Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
An earlier paper by Diewert (2013) provided some new decompositions of economy wide labour productivity growth and … Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth into sectoral effects. The economy wide labour productivity growth rate turned out to … depend on the sectoral labour productivity growth rates, real output price changes and changes in sectoral labour input …
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Malmquist and Törnqvist Productivity Indexes: Returns to Scale and Technical Progress with Imperfect Competition
Diewert, Erwin; Fox, Kevin J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Caves, Christensen and Diewert proposed a method for estimating a theoretical productivity index for a firm using …
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Labour Market Matters - October 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
of workplace injury for workers; in addition to lower productivity for Canadian firms. While anecdotal evidence suggests …
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UPSKILL: A Credible Test of Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills Training
Dowie, Michael; Gyarmati, David; Hébert, Sophie; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Skills (LES) among the Canadian workforce. In addition to having negative impacts on firms’ productivity, research also …
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Measuring Productivity in the Public Sector: Some Conceptual Problems
Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In many sectors of the economy, governments either provide various services at no cost or at highly subsidized prices. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure the price and quantity of nonmarket government...
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