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strengthening of workers’ rights, and increased public ownership in key sectors, is needed to build an economy based on equity …
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How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component...
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This article uses Bourdieu’s theory of practice (BTOP) to understand immigrants’ acculturation. It synthesizes research findings by discussing acculturation as: (1) equalization of immigrants’ and natives’ development (convergence); (2) language and social practices related to economic,...
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This paper discusses some issues related to the triangle between capital accumulation, distribution, and capacity …
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, inflationary restructuring arises as an integral part of capital accumulation. On the aggregate level, inflation appears as …
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restructuring arises as an integral part of capital accumulation. On the aggregate level, inflation appears as stagflation, with the …
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Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...
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Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large … sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the … role of potential measurement problems in construction, particularly output deflators in the measurement of productivity …
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really productivity leaders so early in their industrialization process? To answer these fundamental questions about the … relative to US productivity. Unfortunately, the approach we adopt with respect to data compilation, methodological choice, and …/1871 to derive a series of total factor productivity (TFP) comparisons for a sample of manufacturing establishments located …
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Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of … productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social progress and in terms of understanding the feedback mechanisms …
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