Please join us at the CEA

The Productivity Partnership is hosting two data school sessions. The first session will be presented by Dr. Beryl Li, Productivity Partner Statistics Canada Liaison Researcher who will discuss what microdata is available at CDER/Statistics Canada. The second session will consist of presentations from researchers whose projects have been funded by the Partnership. 

The Productivity Partnership is also co-hosting three sessions on Canada's post-2000 productivity performance with the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (Partnership collaborator). The sessions will focus on setting the stage, the role of technology and exploring if the productivity slowdown can be reversed. The CSLS is also co-hosting a number of additional sessions with other organizations.

Finally, a number of Productivity Partnership co-applicants, collaborators and partner organizations are presenting at various sessions.

Please see below for details for all sessions. More information on all sessions can be found on the CEA Conference Program website.

If you will be around Montreal on June 4, consider attending the bilingual workshop on the Survey of Innovation and Bsiness Strategy with analysts from the CDER, Industry Canada and researchers using this survey. You can also attend via webinar.

Please join us. We would love to see you!

Panelists:

• Akio Yamazaki (University of Calgary): Carbon Tax, Productivity, and Reallocation: Lessons from Canadian Manufacturing Plants
• Wessel Nicolaas Vermeulen (Newcastle University): Firms' Performance in a Natural Resource Based Economy: Evidence from Canadian plants
• Stephanie Houle (McMaster University): Do Investment Agreements Necessarily Cause Offshoring? The Canada-Peru Case
• Loretta Fung (National Tsing Hua University): Empirical Investigation in Cross Border Travel between Canada and the United States
• Gorkem Ozdemir (HEC Montréal): Employment Growth and Financial Frictions at Firm Level: Empirical Evidence From Canada

Setting the Stage

08:30-10:00 | Location TBA

Panelists:

• Wing Kwong Tsang (Centre for the Study of Living Standards): The Stylized Factors About Slower Productivity Growth in Canada    
• Wulong Gu (Statistics Canada): Economic And Productivity Growth In Canada And The United States: Recent Trends And Determinants    
• Michelle Alexopoulos (University of Toronto): Canadian Productivity, Secular Stagnation, And Technological Change

The Role of Technology

10:30-12:00 | Location TBA

Panelists:

• Jianmin Tang (Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada): Technological Change, Technical Efficiency and Canada's Post-2000 Productivity Performance    
• Jeff Mollins (Bank of Canada): ICT Contribution to Productivity Growth in Canada

Can the Productivity Slowdown be Reversed and If So, How?

16:00-17:30 | Location TBA

• Catherine Beaudry (École Polytechique de Montréal)
• Paul Boothe (Western University)
• Don Drummond (Queen's University)
• Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)

• Changes in wage and productivity inequalities in Canada over 2001-2011 | June 2 | 10:30 | Session: STATCAN: Research on Labour Market and Firm Dynamics Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

• The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data | June 2 | 16:00 | Session: Labour Markets: Minimum wages and Regulation / Marchés du travail : Salaire minimum et réglementation

• Is the Neoclassical Growth Model Useful even after the Labor Share Decline? | June 1 | 08:30 | Session: CMSG: Business Cycle Modelling
• Do We have Good Models to Predict the Impact of Trade Liberalization? | June 2 | 10:30 | Session: Modelling the Economic Impact of Trade Agreements

• (with CLEF) New Perspectives on Immigrants in the Labour Force Using Employer-Employee Matched Data | June 1 | 10:30
• (with CLEF) New Administrative Data on the Returns to Post-Secondary Education | June 1 | 14:00
• (with CHEA) New Administrative Data on Health and Employment | June 1 | 16:00
• (with CHEA) Economic Costs of Smoking | June 2 | 8:30
• Research on Labour Market and Firm Dynamics Using Matched Employer-Employee Data | June 2 | 10:30
• Measuring and Assessing the Impact of the New Economy | June 2 | 14:00

• Women and the Labour Market | June 1 | 10:30
• (with CHEA) Inequalities in Health/Healthcare | June 1 | 14:00
• Immigration Integration | June 1 | 16:00
• Open Data comes to ESDC: Gains for Research & Policy | June 1 | 16:00
• Modernization at Statistics Canada and the CRDCN: Implications for Research | June 2 | 08:30
• Gender and Higher Education | June 2 | 14:00

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