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Shocking idea about the Jobs Grants program: Give the money to trainees
Workers will use it better than either the provinces or employers
What’s happening to middle class incomes?
The news isn’t bad. The real issue is men’s wages.
Stephen Gordon
Stephen Gordon is an economics professor at l'Université Laval in Quebec City. He started the blog Worthwhile Canadian Initiative in 2005 and has been blogging about economics ever since.
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Has Ben Bernanke made Stephen Poloz’s job more difficult?
The Federal Reserve chairman and the Canadian dollar
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Why Canada is no slouch
Stephen Gordon explains why the oft-repeated claim that we are a productivity laggard is all wrong
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Canada’s productivity crisis: misdiagnosed
An Econowatch special report on productivity (part five)
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Don’t blame Canada’s productivity woes on the commodity boom
An Econowatch special report on productivity (part four)
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A Canadian magic trick: wages that rise even if productivity doesn’t
An Econowatch special report on productivity (part three)
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Technical progress in Canada’s business sector: stuck in 1971?
An Econowatch special report on productivity (part two)
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Intro to productivity (that thing Canadians are apparently so bad at)
Presenting: the Econowatch special report on productivity
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Higher taxes on Canada’s rich won’t generate much new revenue
Canada is different, says Stephen Gordon