Confessions of a Serial Productivity Researcher [PDF]
With an ageing population and declining labour force growth productivity is becoming increasingly important as a source of economic growth. Despite this importance, governments fear the productivity word because of public misunderstanding of its meaning.
Don Drummond
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Improving US National Accounts Integration and Consistency: A Review Article on A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts [PDF]
The review article first presents a brief overview of each chapter, focusing on the main contributions of the respective authors. This does not fully do justice to their work since these chapters include much more than can be considered here, but it will
Jean-Pierre Villetelle
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Integral projection models for species with complex demography [PDF]
, 2006 Matrix projection models occupy a central role in population and conservation biology. Matrix models divide a population into discrete classes, even if the structuring trait exhibits continuous variation ( e. g., body size). The integral projection model
Ellner, S.P., Rees, M.
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Plant Protection Science, 2014 Spatial heterogeneity in agricultural systems is recognised as an important source of variability to be investigated. In the evolution of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), patterns and processes that influence spatio-temporal dynamics in insect ...
Andrea Sciarretta, Pasquale Trematerra
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Is Canada Really All That Bad At Innovation?: A Tale of Two Industries [PDF]
This commentary raises questions about the degree to which global innovation indicators enable us to understand the historical dynamics of innovation in Canada, and about future directions for Canadian innovation policy. By focusing on the automotive and
Richard Hawkins
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Plant Protection Science, 2018 The trap catch of Agriotes species and dynamics of the occurrence of adult click beetles using pheromone traps were determined, and the relationship between the dynamics of the caught wireworms and the placement of traps in selected agricultural crops ...
Magdalena Jakubowska +2 more
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Some Reflections on the Expert Panel Report on Business Innovation in Canada [PDF]
This article reviews the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel report on business innovation. It finds the report comprehensive in its gathering and assessment of available research, innovative, in its own right, in its analysis of innovation as an ...
Ian A. Stewart
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Can Sectoral Reallocations of Labour Explain Canada’s Absymal Productivity Performance? [PDF]
This report presents a framework for decomposing aggregate productivity growth into within-sector effects and sectoral reallocation effects. This framework is used to analyze productivity growth in 12 Canadian industries for the 1961-2007 period and for ...
Andrew Sharpe
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Analytical modeling of open-Circuit air-Gap field distributions in multisegment and multilayer interior permanent-magnet machines [PDF]
, 2009 We present a simple lumped magnetic circuit model for interior permanent-magnet (IPM) machines with multisegment and multilayer permanent magnets. We derived analytically the open-circuit air-gap field distribution, average air-gap flux density, and ...
Chan, C.C. +3 more
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The Measurement of TFP in Argentina, 1990-2004: A Case of the Tyranny of Numbers, Economic Cycles and Methodology [PDF]
The aim of this study is to examine the main sources of growth in Argentina for the period 1990-2004 in order to identify the dominant growth profile: either extensive, which is associated with factor accumulation and utilisation, or intensive, which is ...
Ariel Coremberg
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