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Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
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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Productivity Growth in the OECD Area: Some Recent Findings
Pilat, Dirk - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 32-44
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has in recent years devoted considerable resources to the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an overview of the key results of this research effort....
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518950
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Robots, exports and top income inequality: Evidence for the U.S.
César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Garriga, Pablo - 2022
The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology adoption and a strong expansion of international trade. Simultaneously, the income distribution has exhibited both polarization and concentration among the richest. Combining datasets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518124
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Robots, exports and top income inequality : evidence for the U.S.
César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Garriga, Pablo - 2022
The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology adoption and a strong expansion of international trade. Simultaneously, the income distribution has exhibited both polarization and concentration among the richest. Combining datasets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466644
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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
economies and that Canada's inferior income performance reflected cyclical factors associated with poor macroeconomic policy … economic and labour market developments in Canada and the United States in the 1989-2000 period, looking at trends in real …; the emergence of a participation rate gap; and greater self-employment and part-time employment growth in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650217
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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
Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … greatly exceeded that recorded in Canada. Output per hour in Canada fell 20 percentage points from 87 per cent of the US level … in 1994 to 67 per cent in 2001. This development has been responsible for most of the widening of the aggregate Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518970
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Task content and job losses in the Great Lockdown
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2020
I examine the short-term labor market effects of the Great Lockdown in the United States. I analyze job losses by task content (Acemoglu & Autor 2011), and show that they follow underlying trends; jobs with a high non-routine content are especially well-protected, even if they are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306404
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295149
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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
This paper investigates whether the Covid-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the Covid-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...
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