While some retirement is welcomed and on-time, other retirements are involuntary or forced due to the loss of a job, an early retirement incentive, a health problem, mandatory retirement, lack of control with too many job strains, or to provide care to a family member. An analysis of the 2002...

La croissance des microtechnologies et leur diffusion repandue dans l'ensemble des secteurs economiques a donne lieu a ce qu'on appelle souvent la nouvelle economie, soit une economie dans laquelle les perspectives de soutien de la concurrence sont etroitement liees aux pratiques en matiere...

Dans ce document, on examine l'incidence du travail autonome sur la croissance de la productivite du travail dans le secteur des entreprises. En outre, on y compare la situation du Canada et des Etats-Unis dans ce domaine pour la periode de 1987 a 1998.

This paper examines the influence of the dramatic expansion of self-employment on the Canadian business sector's growth in labour productivity. It compares Canadian and American experiences in this area from 1987 to 1998.

The growth in micro-technologies and their widespread diffusion across economic sectors have given rise to what is often described as a New Economy - an economy in which competitive prospects are closely aligned with the firm's innovation and technology practices, and its use of skilled workers....

While some retirement is welcomed and on-time, other retirements are involuntary or forced due to the loss of a job, an early retirement incentive, a health problem, mandatory retirement, lack of control with too many job strains, or to provide care to a family member. An analysis of the 2002...

Identifying the value orientations of subjects participating in market or non-market decisions by having them participate in decomposed games may be helpful in understanding the behaviour of these subjects. This experiment presents the results of changes in the centre and the radius of a value...