The paper aims to contribute to the longstanding technology-push vs. demand-pull debate and to the literature on renewable energy diffusion and renewable energy policy assessment. We argue that in addition to the traditional push-pull dichotomy, the drivers of technological change must be...

In this article, Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University, Richard G. Harris from Simon Fraser University, and Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provide a comprehensive analysis of the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour...

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...

Nous proposons, dans cet article, une analyse formelle de la relation formation-croissance dans cinq économies de l'OCDE, fondée sur la notion de qualifications intermédiaires et intégrant la forte dimension institutionnelle de cette variable. Celle-ci apparaît en effet déterminée par les...

Nous amenons certains compléments aux travaux de Küng Gugler et Blank (2000) portant sur l'évolution de l'inégalité des salaires entre 1992 et 1997. Notamment, nous incluons dans nos données les travailleurs indépendants. Nous apportons également une dimension inférentielle à la...

The author explains how self-enforcing labour contracts can enhance the performance of macroeconomic models. He exposes the benefits of using these dynamic contracts to account for some puzzling macroeconomic facts regarding the dynamics and persistence of employment, consumption and output. In...

We use microdata to examine the existence of downward wage rigidity in France, during the second half of the 90s. We use three annual datasets : a sample of the Déclarations Annuelles de Données Sociales, the Fiscal Income Survey and the Labour Force Survey. The first two sources, compiled on...

L'étude de l'évolution de la distribution des salaires sous forme d'analyse de coupes transversales peut manquer de documenter des faits liés à la mobilité salariale de certains groupes de travailleurs. Ce travail, basé sur une étude en panel, vise à relativiser la stabilité de la...

This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices, exports and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French establishments. We confirm and expand results previously found by Aubert, Caroli and Roger (2004). The share of older workers...