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This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...
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The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with output per hour lower in 2000 than in 1977. In this article Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards examines productivity trends in this sector and...
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for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …
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In France, the number of years of schooling is high, and so is spending on education. Over the past thirty years …, more generally, is the impact of education on the growth of productivity in France in the medium term? Neo-classical growth … of the number of years of schooling. Second, it does not mean that all forms of education expenditures have a high …
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individuals with low levels of education, and to situate it in the context of the evolution in the value of a high school diploma … over the 1981-1996 period, conditional on not pursuing post-secondary education. To do so I make use of Statistics Canada … whether the value of holding a high school diploma (excluding the option value of pursuing post-secondary education) has …
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A Grenoble comme dans la plupart des grandes villes françaises, le nombre de places en crèches est limité et seule une partie des demandes peuvent être satisfaites. L’enquête menée en 2007 auprès de l’ensemble des familles grenobloises inscrivant un enfant en maternelle permet de...
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rapport à la frontière technologique. Outre les effets additifs de l’éducation et des régulations sur les marchés des biens et …’en l’absence de concurrence suffisante, les entreprises sont peu incitées à générer de nouvelles rentes via l’innovation … niveau d’éducation tertiaire et des rigidités sur la croissance de la PGF traduit à la fois une influence directe et un effet …
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