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The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 3-18
Jianmin Tang of Industry Canada examine the contribution of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector to …
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Schooling supply and the structure of production : evidence from US states 1950―1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
and understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two goods/industries, two skill types, and …
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Labor shortage and innovation
Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2020
, distinguishing different skill levels. We analyze whether labor shortage resulted in stopping or abandoning of innovation projects … likely to be subject to skill shortage, whereas skill shortage induces the cancelation of innovation projects. Effects are …
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Skills, Majors, and Jobs : Does Higher Education Respond?
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Hemelt, Steven W.; Hershbein, Brad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …
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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job …-augmenting technologies on occupation-level employment and wage bills. A model featuring labor-saving and labor-augmenting technologies with …
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Did the Covid-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data
Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022
Covid-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the share of digital occupations in both employment and newly …
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Did the COVID-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data
Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022
COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the share of digital occupations in both employment and newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244425
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2
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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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001
income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … trends in the two labour markets, including the concentration of employment growth in services and in managerial and …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …
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The Widening Canada-US Productivity Gap in Manufaturing
Bernstein, Jeffrey I.; Harris, Richard G.; Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 3-22
In this article, Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University, Richard G. Harris from Simon Fraser University, and Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provide a comprehensive analysis of the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour...
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