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The traditional developed economies of the Group of Three (G3)-the European Union, Japan and the United States- all face economic slowdown, and acceptance is growing that the Asia-Pacific region will be the world's next engine of economic growth. Developing economies in Asia and the Pacific are...
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This paper examines employment-focused policies in the U.S. disability system and summarizes rigorous evaluations of … promoting employment, given that many interventions have gone untested and most U.S. disability programs include work …
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offers lessons for delivering intervention services, tracking services, and evaluating U.K. employment initiatives for people … additional supports—especially supported employment services—for participants with psychiatric conditions, providing more …
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likely economic and employment impacts are explored. These agreements not only liberalise trade, but also open service …
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This article uses household-level survey data on income and employment to compare labour market dynamics across a range … of advanced economies, including Australia. The analysis focuses on how changes in employment status are distributed … studied. In particular, lower-income households are more likely to have moved into or out of employment but less likely to …
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, which in turn, has had substantial stratification effects on employment and income opportunities of different occupations …
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The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap and to offer an explanation of why Americans have been and continue to be, on average, more productive than Canadians. This focus on relative productivity levels is in contrast to the typical...
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Historically, per capita income in the United States has exceeded those in Canada and this difference has reflected higher labour productivity levels south of the 49th parallel. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provides estimates of the size of the...
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This Economic Letter discusses the sources of the recent discrepancy between two employment growth data series produced …
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necessary and sufficient conditions for either outcome; these depend on technologies, factor endowments and export levels. In a …
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