productivity. Countries with growing labour forces need to embark in growth patterns that are labour intensive, offer possibilities … for dynamic structural change and productivity increases. Both cases require investments in education, skill formation and … upgrading. The impact of population ageing on economic variables is nuanced but should not be ignored. …

The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of … the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

used to determine the social productivity of labor as a ratio between the GDP and the occupied population. …This paper analyzes the recent evolution of the population and labor resources in Romania. The occupied population …, according to the SEC methodology, is the sole entity that indicates the human potential of the occupied labor force that can be …

ILO pub. Working paper on a case study of three multinational enterprises in the electronics industry in Singapore … technological change and to labour market variations, comments on industrial development, productivity, industrial production …, government policy, etc., and includes lessons for host developing countries and enterprises. References. …

. This attitude also influences the public's reaction to policy debate about the productivity agenda. As well, in their words …In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly …

; the impact of economic reform on British productivity growth; productivity and policy reform in Australia; the measurement …The fifth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap; trends in Canadian living standards …

between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the … productivity. In the fifth and final section two papers examine the relationship between social policy, inequality and productivity …Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given …

an overview of Australian economic performance and the policy reforms that turned around Australia's laggard productivity … policy reforms explain much of Australia's improved productivity performance. He identifies three broad areas of policy …Australia has historically been Canada's poorer cousin. But a pick-up in productivity growth in the 1990s has raised …

The foundation for real income growth is productivity growth. This basic principle of economics is well illustrated in … with the United States can be accounted for by our slower labour productivity growth. In the first half of the period our … falling employment-population ratio contributed to the decline in our standard of living relative to that in the United States …

The study examines the different aspects of labor in the rural household economy. It identifies the factors that … significantly determine the rural households' labor allocation decisions. Moreover, it also looks at how the availability and growth … of rural nonagricultural employment opportunities affect the rural households' labor allocation decisions and the rural …