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Controlling for observable worker attributes, we find that computer use is associated with a wage premium of at most 14%. Following Dinardo and Pischke (1997), we examine the wage premium associated with other tools used on the job. While these authors find a significant wage premium for the use...
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We provide recent evidence on job characteristics by firm size in Canada. Using a variety of household surveys, we …
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Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use …
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This study compares Canada’s economic performance to Australia. The comparison is performed in terms of: a) living … two countries, reflected by a more rapid growth in hours at work and labour utilization rate in Canada. However, this … rapid growth in hours at work has muted Canada’s labour productivity growth, which increased less rapidly than its …
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of panel data on advanced technology use from Statistics Canada’s 1993 and 1998 advanced manufacturing surveys that are …
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This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation on plant performance and plant survival. It uses a...
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Canada from 1973 to 1996 - the study shows that the manufacturing sector experienced considerable job renewal. Two-thirds of …
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Canada were to only capitalize the narrow Frascati definition of R&D expenditures and not a broader class of science … trading partner, the United States. It would provide a biased estimate of Canada's GDP relative to the United States. If all … science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada's innovation system …
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This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of a head office and the amount of employment in that head office. Among the characteristics investigated are firm size, number of plants,...
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This study examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) and of foreign outsourcing on the demand for skilled workers. One of the defining features of the Canadian economy in the last two decades has been an increasing wage gap between more- and less-skilled workers....
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