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In an empirical analysis of the migration patterns of University of British Columbia (UBC) graduates, John F. and David …
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downward biased so that the causal effect of education on earnings may be higher than previously believed. Evidence suggests …
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earnings, as well as skills acquisition that affects future returns from working and the uncertainty surrounding these future …
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The most direct mechanism by which labour productivity affects living standards is through real wages, that is, wages … adjusted to reflect the cost of living. Between 1980 and 2005, the median real earnings of Canadians workers stagnated, while … labour productivity rose 37 per cent. This article analyzes the reasons for this situation. It identifies four factors of …
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The most direct mechanism by which labour productivity affects living standards is through real wages, that is, wages … adjusted to reflect the cost of living. Between 1980 and 2005, the median real earnings of Canadians workers stagnated, while … labour productivity rose 37 per cent. This report analyzes the reasons for this situation. It identifies four factors of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650221
This report presents new estimates of the levels and growth rates of labour, capital and multifactor productivity for … industry levels. Also, estimates of the sources of labour productivity growth (capital intensity, labour quality, and … multifactor productivity) are presented. Furthermore, this report examines the labour productivity gap between the provinces and …
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be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …
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software gap. About one-third of the gap can be assigned to differences in labour productivity, industry structure, and …
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The objective of this report is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The report sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165242
The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of the oil and gas industry on labour productivity growth in … affects aggregate productivity. The article sheds light on the paradoxical lack of a direct negative contribution of the oil … and gas sector to aggregate labour productivity growth despite the very large fall in productivity experienced by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185159