Showing 1 - 10 of 151
According to Statistics Canada productivity estimates, the rate of growth of real output per hour in the construction industry in Canada over the 1981-2006 period was 0.53 per cent per year, one-third of the business sector average. This article examines evidence for and against the hypothesis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481868
La diffusion des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) était supposée déboucher sur un régime économique sans précédent marqué par une croissance forte, régulière et non inflationniste. S'ouvrait une ère nouvelle en matière d'organisation des firmes (essor des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176555
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650247
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502131
French Abstract:</B> Le système bancaire chinois s'est très bien comporté ces dernières années, à la fois par rapport à ses homologues occidentaux mais aussi par rapport à sa propre situation il y a seulement quelques années. L'amélioration en termes de taille et de rentabilité résulte...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922095
Les administrations infranationales ont un rôle déterminant à jouer dans le respect des engagements pris au regard de la biodiversité aux niveaux national et international. En s’appuyant sur l’expérience pratique de l’Écosse (Royaume-Uni), de la France et d’autres signataires de la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174622
The article aims at identifying socioeconomic factors which explain the Chinese famine of 1959-1961. The main hypothesis of this paper is that the radicalism of Great Leap Forward policies generated both a decline of agricultural output (availability problems) and the implementation of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496990
Le dynamisme des petites entreprises n’est pas une fin en soi, mais un élément du secteur des PME qui concourt à la progression globale de la productivité. Il favorise les gains de productivité en redistribuant les ressources vers les entreprises les plus efficientes et en renforçant la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454603
Interprovincial migration has increased significantly in Canada since 2003. This article develops a methodology to estimate total output gains due to interprovincial migration from two sources: gains due to increased employment, and gains due to re-allocation of workers between provinces with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292738
In the third and final article in the Symposium included in this volume on Future Productivity Growth in Canada, Benoît Robidoux from Finance Canada observes that there has been a structural improvement in labour productivity growth in Canada since 1996 and that it is likely that this stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292739