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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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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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, both in services and manufacturing industries. This age bias is also evidenced within occupational groups (both high-skill … and low-skill). Older workers are affected through both lower inflows and higher outflows. However, we also find evidence …
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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...
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the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis at the firm level of the link between international trade and employment, for … employment, and to the decrease in the share of unskilled labour in production labour. However, the firms constantly involved in … the link between flows of international trade and firm employment, conditional on size as well as industry affiliation …
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innovation. In this article, we analyze the impact of information and communication technologies on employment in the services … sector in ECOWAS. Contrary to their ambiguous impact observed on employment in countries where the ICT penetration rate is … quite high, we expect rather that the internet will a positive impact on employment in ECOWAS services sector. The results …
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durablement le chômage. This paper explores the consequences of public employment on labour market performances in developing … countries. If in developed countries evidence shows that public employment may not only crowd out private employment, but also … increase overall unemployment, our theoretical considerations suggest that public employment significantly affects labour …
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La finalité de notre article est de comprendre la nature et la diversité des relations intervenant dans le processus de diffusion interorganisationnelle des connaissances. Notre questionnement porte dans un premier temps sur la nature des dimensions de ces relations et dans un second temps sur...
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L’apprentissage organisationnel, étudié notamment dans les théories basées sur les ressources, revêt un caractère stratégique (Wernerfelt 1984, Prahalad et Hamel 1990, Doz 1990, Teece 1998, Weartherly 2003). Dès lors, « apprendre à apprendre » (Argyris et Schön, 1978) et être une...
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