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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience

Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22

investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries accounting for the catch-up. The process of convergence seems to have ended in …

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Editor’s Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 1-2

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the...

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In Search of the Silver Bullet for Productivity Growth: A Review Article of The Power of Productivity and Transforming the European Economy

Ark, Bart van - In: International Productivity Monitor 10 (2005) Spring, pp. 79-86

attention give by both volumes to innovation and education -- two areas that are generally felt to be very important in terms of …

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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 52-68

The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with output per hour lower in 2000 than in 1977. In this article Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards examines productivity trends in this sector and...

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Where Does Brazil Fit? Brazilian Schooling Investments in an International Perspective.

Bahrman, J.R.; Schneider, R. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1991

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Thai Schooling Investments in an International Pespective.

Bahrman, J.R.; Schneider, R. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1991

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A Guide to Measuring College Costs

Winston, G.C. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1998

of undergraduate education. The three major areas discussed are the complicated issues in estimating the yearly cost of … costs generated by undergraduate education in a complicated "multi-product" university. …

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For-Profit Higher Education: Godzilla or Chicken Little?

Winston, G.C. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1998

Student subsidies are large, ubiquitous, and very unevenly distributed in US higher education - covering, on average …

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What's Been Happening to Higher Education? Facts, Trends, and Data

Winston, G.C.; Carbone, J.C.; Lewis, E.G. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1998

to a new way of tracking and understanding the changes that have been overtaking higher education, natioinally. The paper …

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Cohort Size Effects on US Enrollment Decisions.

Macunovich, D.J. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 1996

Although considerable effort has been expended on measuring the returns to education in the U.S. and on modeling the …

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