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Be it Olympics or tennis or any other sport, we see that few countries always have greater representation on the medals tally. Tennis is a sport that demands a high level of hard work and investment not just in coaching, but also for its accessories. ATP and WTA are two professional bodies that...
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This paper uses matched employer-employee panel data to show that individual job satisfaction is higher when other workers in the same establishment are better-paid. This runs contrary to a large literature which has found evidence of income comparisons in subjective well-being. We argue that...
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Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States – to show litigated cases of fraud significantly vary by country, and the …
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We use an inductive approach to understand what types of founders’ human capital, at individual and team levels, are necessary to recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. A sample of 195 founders who teamed up in the nascent phases of Cleantech and Interned-based sectors is...
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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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-employment, and self-employment with paid help changed in Canada between the 1990s and the 2000s. It is found that the self …
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of Canada, USA and EU (EU level) in the field of highly skilled migration. I find that this type of migration is … middle-skilled professionals. I find that the USA and Canada are relatively open to int’l students whereas the final EU …
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