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This report takes stock of recent research into the effects of technology on the labor market; assesses to what extent …
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Both ICT-producing and ICT-using industries have contributed disproportionately to labour productivity growth in the 1990s. In this article, Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar from the University of Groningen and Robert H. McGuckin of the U.S. Conference Board compare Canada, the United States and...
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This report takes stock of recent research into the effects of technology on the labor market; assesses to what extent …
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Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in the second half of the 1990s. In this article, Gilbert Cette from the Bank of France and the University of Aix-Marseilles II, Jacques Mairesse of INSEE-CREST, and Yusef Kocoglu...
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In the third and final article in the Symposium included in this volume on Future Productivity Growth in Canada, Benoît Robidoux from Finance Canada observes that there has been a structural improvement in labour productivity growth in Canada since 1996 and that it is likely that this stronger...
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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; the impact of economic reform on British productivity...
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The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards 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...
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Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of …
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Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of … openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. -- Technology …
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This paper studies the effects of university STEM education on innovation and labor market outcomes by exploiting a change in enrollment requirements in Italian STEM majors. University-level scientific education had two direct effects on the development of patents by students who had acquired a...
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