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A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if appropriate organizational structures are in place. This article by Surendra Gera of Industry Canada and Wulong Gu of Statistics Canada provides Canadian evidence to support this view....
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Estimates produced by the OECD indicate that labour productivity levels are higher in a number of European countries than in the United States, implying that Europe and not the United States is the world technological leader. The author argues that a structural measure of labour productivity,...
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adult learning on the part of the disadvantaged, he proposes a scheme for paid training leave funded through Employment …
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In this article, Jeffrey I. Bernstein of Carleton University, Richard G. Harris from Simon Fraser University, and Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provide a comprehensive analysis of the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour...
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French Abstract: L’essor des technologies de l’information et de la communication constitue de nos jours un canal de création d’emplois dans le secteur des services dans la CEDEAO car elles rendent plus efficaces le travail et sont source d’innovations. Dans le cadre de cet article,...
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The aim of this research is to highlight the role of job-training, overall on the macroeconomic level and mainly on the … microeconomic level. To this end, we will show through an approach by the endogenous theories of economic growth how the training of … for training, we will raise through a survey of twenty S.M.F the position of this type of firms in rapport to job-training …
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The aim of this research is to highlight the role of job-training, overall on the macroeconomic level and mainly on the … microeconomic level. To this end, we will show through an approach by the endogenous theories of economic growth how the training of … for training, we will raise through a survey of twenty S.M.F the position of this type of firms in rapport to job-training …
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We estimate the productivity- and wage-returns to firm-provided training in a panel of French Firms. We find positive … and significant returns to training on productivity. For instance, an increase in training intensity by 150 Euros per … worker increases a firms labor productivity by 0.4 %. Moreover, firms benefit from providing training to their workers, since …
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