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Historically, per capita income in the United States has exceeded those in Canada and this difference has reflected higher labour productivity levels south of the 49th parallel. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provides estimates of the size of the...
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Lorsque les modalités de réponse à une question de santé subjective sont utilisées différemment par différents individus, on dit que celles-ci sont affectées d’un effet DIF. Nous présentons une méthode non-paramétrique de détection et de correction de tels effets dans les...
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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
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Le concept d'intelligence d'un système s'appuie actuellement le plus souvent sur des notions intuitives ou se réfère à … régne entre les buts poursuivis par l'automatisation et ceux de l'intelligence artificielle se traduit, en pratique, par une … frontière imprécise entre systèmes intelligents et non intelligents. Cet article tente d'appréhender globalement la notion d'intelligence …
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Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in the U.S. Services Sector: New Sources of Economic Growth", by Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth from the Brookings Institution is reviewed. The authors have produced a textbook on...
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According to Statistics Canada productivity estimates, the rate of growth of real output per hour in the construction industry in Canada over the 1981-2006 period was 0.53 per cent per year, one-third of the business sector average. This article examines evidence for and against the hypothesis...
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