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individuals with low levels of education, and to situate it in the context of the evolution in the value of a high school diploma … over the 1981-1996 period, conditional on not pursuing post-secondary education. To do so I make use of Statistics Canada … whether the value of holding a high school diploma (excluding the option value of pursuing post-secondary education) has …
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This work analyzed the effects of human capital on world growth using snapshot data from 1995 and the DRC with the time series from 1970 to 1994 and also analyzes the income gaps between the different countries of the world And the DRC. The analysis was made using the Solow model with human...
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Evaluation's way is set on a paradox. The feed-back of evaluation would imply - according to a wrong way - the evaluation of the examiner. Systemic Analysis could show the promises and the semantic limits of this technical. It seems to be impossible to measure work's human value through the...
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model of community formation. When young, an individual must choose whether to invest in education or not. The crucial … feature of our framework is that children assess the economic pay-off of education by observing the experience of the older …-economic composition of each neighborhood makes its inhabitants well informed and therefore willing to invest in education. (ii) A …
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Le niveau de vie moyen des Tunisiens a augmenté de façon continue depuis plusieurs décennies tandis que la pauvreté et les inégalités ont largement diminué grâce à la mise en oeuvre de nombreux programmes sociaux. L’accès aux infrastructures de base telles que l’eau potable ou...
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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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The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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This the inaugural issue of the International Productivity Monitor, a new publication produced by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS). The objective of the Monitor is to focus atttention on the importance of productivity for improving living standards and quality of...
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The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...
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A Grenoble comme dans la plupart des grandes villes françaises, le nombre de places en crèches est limité et seule une partie des demandes peuvent être satisfaites. L’enquête menée en 2007 auprès de l’ensemble des familles grenobloises inscrivant un enfant en maternelle permet de...
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