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Skills, innovation and human capital as they feature prominently on the policy agenda of industrialized countries … concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … achieved through a better understanding of the relationship between the skills developed through formal education and their …
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In this chapter, Tony Fisher and Doug Hostland provide an historical perspective on trends in labour productivity …
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In this chapter, Andrew Sharpe provides a comprehensive non-technical introduction to the productivity issue, including … discussion of productivity concepts, measurement issues, trends and prospects. He begins by noting that productivity is the … production. The measurement of productivity is fraught with conceptual and empirical issues, meaning that there can be a …
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This paper first reviews apprenticeship trends in Canada over the last two decades. It then examines prospects for labour market conditions for the total economy and for the construction sector to the year 2005 based on scenarios developed by the forecasting firm Informetrica for the IAS...
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Since 1999, thousands of Métis have received training and found employment through Métis Human Resources Development Agreements (MHRDAs). We estimate MHRDA activities’ annual fiscal impact, which includes higher tax revenue,lower government transfers, mostly in the form of EI and social...
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This report examines human resource and skills issues pertaining to the Ontario-Quebec Continental Gateway and Trade … presents strategies being implemented by companies and industry associations to address human resource and skills challenges …
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The skills issue is currently at or near the top of the federal government’s policy agenda, given its importance for … assessment of Canada’s record in education and skills is quite positive. He finds that relative to other OECD countries, Canada … with non-university, post-secondary education in the OECD; and that the country’s literacy skills, particularly for the …
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In this chapter, Andrew Heisz, Andrew Jackson and Garnet Picot provide an incisive and comprehensive analysis of the distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends over time and the particular patterns that can...
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earnings, as well as skills acquisition that affects future returns from working and the uncertainty surrounding these future …
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be likely to contribute to productivity growth in British Columbia: the underutilization of the skills of recent …
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