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The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …
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This article by Raynauld Letourneau and Martine Lajoie of Industry Canada provides a detailed regional analysis of … most recent data currently available. They find that all regions and provinces of Canada trail the U.S. average in both …
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the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish … productivity levels in manufacturing; productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada; and a review of Angus Maddison …
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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 importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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argues that the expansion of the self-employed sector in Canada and the weak growth in Canadian selfemployment net income … Canada and the United States in the 1990s can be attributed to the greater growth of self-employment in Canada and the poorer …
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This paper examines the level of labour productivity in Canada relative to that of the United States in 1999. In doing …, and taking into account alternative assumptions about Canada/U.S. prices, the paper provides point estimates of Canada …
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What members do unions protect? This question is relevant to an ongoing debate about union wage distribution. This paper investigates how unionization affects the relationship between involuntary job loss and a worker's unobservable ability. Taking advantage of detailed micro-level panel data...
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
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development and wellbeing in Europe, the United States and Canada. We calculate a compound index of several indicators based on …, the United States, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The three groups …-being Indexes, European Union, United States, Canada …
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