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Organisation du travail et sante des seniors en Europe

Debrand, Thierry; Lengagne, Pascale - Institut de Recherche et de Documentation en Économie … - 2007

Les conditions de travail ont rapidement évolué au cours des dernières décennies dans les pays développés. Cette évolution s’est accompagnée de l’apparition de nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail s’avérant être sources de pénibilité et de risques pour la santé. Dans...

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Preference for early retirement, health and job satisfaction: a European comparison

BLANCHET, Didier; DEBRAND, T. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2007

This work uses the first wave of SHARE to analyze the impact of health and satisfaction at work on preferences … people wishing to retire as soon as possible. We examine how health and work conditions contribute to explain differences in … are consistent with expectations, but they are of little help for explaining international differences. Fixing health and …

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Survol des contributions théoriques et empiriques liées au capital humain

Parent, Daniel - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

In this essay, I provide an extensive review of the theoretical and empirical contributions pertaining to human capital. The first part follows the development of the theory with special emphasis, naturally, on Becker's path-breaking work (JPE '62 and Woytinski Lecture) and also on Ben-Porath's...

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The Growth Story: Canada's Long-run Economic Performance and Prospects

Nicholson, Peter J. - In: International Productivity Monitor 7 (2003) Fall, pp. 3-23

In this lead article, Peter Nicholson, who until recently served as advisor to the Secretary General at the OECD and is currently serving as policy advisor to the Prime Minister, Paul Martin, discusses the long-run economic performance, prospects in Canada, and policy priorities based on the...

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The Importance of Skills for Innovation and Productivity

Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 15-26

The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada provide additional evidence of this relationship through a detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and...

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Editor's Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...

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Future Productivity Growth in Canada: Comparing to the United States

Macklem, Tiff - In: International Productivity Monitor 7 (2003) Fall, pp. 50-57

In this second contribution to the Symposium included in this volume on Future Productivity in Canada, Tiff Macklem of the Bank of Canada compares sources of recent productivity growth in Canada and the United States. Macklem sees aggregate labour productivity growth in Canada advancing at...

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The income-distance trade-off of migrants young workers (In French)

MAGRINI, Marie-Benoît - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2006

Spatial mobility can be seen as an employment strategy to obtain job opportunities located into a different local labor market than the individual origin’s local market. That is migrants should have higher wages than non-migrants, as much more than migration effort should be compensated by job...

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Are Productivity Levels Higher in Some European Countries than in the United States?

Cette, Gilbert - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 59-68

Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...

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The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information and Communications Technology on Firm Performance

Gera, Surendra; Gu, Wulong - In: International Productivity Monitor 9 (2004) Fall, pp. 37-51

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics Canada provides Canadian evidence to support this view....

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