281 research outputs found
The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2002: Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity
No full textSkills, 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 conventional policy instrument of governments in pursuing these objectives. Indeed, "more is better" is often the guiding principle here. The actual linkages, however, are not as straightforward as they may appear. Certainly, there are gains to be achieved through a better understanding of the relationship between the skills developed through formal education and their causal impact on productivity, as well as a more nuanced approach to policy in this area. In this chapter, Arthur Sweetman points out, "the issue is not whether education has benefits but, rather, the magnitude of its 'true' benefits, the benefits relative to costs, and the distribution of costs and benefits. Sweetman examines three different sets of evidence, focusing on the impact of education on earnings at the individual level and on productivity at the macroeconomic level, and on issues related to the operation of the Canadian educational system.Education, Skills, Growth, Productivity, Labour Productivity, Labor Productivity, Educational Attainment, Human Capital, Knowledge, Quality, Education Quality, Private Benefit, Social Benefit, Value, Investment
The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching
No full textThe implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also investigate occupational mobility and observe convergence toward the occupational skill distribution of the domestic population, although four years after landing immigrants remain less likely have a high skilled job. Immigrants who are able to match their source and host country occupations obtain higher earnings. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience, which is observed to be statistically significantly negative. Crucially, English language skills are found to have an appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience.immigration, human capital portability, occupation, language, education
The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching
No full textThe implications of human capital portability -- including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching -- for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also investigate occupational mobility and observe convergence toward the occupational skill distribution of the domestic population, although four years after landing immigrants remain less likely have a high skilled job. Immigrants who are able to match their source and host country occupations obtain higher earnings. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience, which is observed to be statistically significantly negative. Crucially, English language skills are found to have an appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience.Immigration, human capital portability, occupation, education, language
Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?
No full textImmigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration experience. The nature of immigration and structural differences involving the domestic labour markets are hypothesized to provide plausible explanations for at least some of the gap. Additionally, there are dynamic issues related to, for instance, the timing of immigrant entry with respect to the business cycle, and changes in the rates of immigration flows, that may have some impact on labour market outcomes and explain some short- to medium-term aspects of the gap in outcomes. On the other hand, common trends are also observed; both unemployment and earnings outcomes among entering immigrants have deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden.immigration, cross-country differences, Canada, Sweden
sj-xlsx-2-ppn-10.1177_15271544241240489 - Supplemental material for The Trajectory of Agency-Employed Nurses in Ontario, Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis (2011–2021)
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-2-ppn-10.1177_15271544241240489 for The Trajectory of Agency-Employed Nurses in Ontario, Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis (2011–2021) by Alyssa Drost, Houssem Eddine Ben-Ahmed and Arthur Sweetman in Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice</p
sj-docx-1-ppn-10.1177_15271544241240489 - Supplemental material for The Trajectory of Agency-Employed Nurses in Ontario, Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis (2011–2021)
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ppn-10.1177_15271544241240489 for The Trajectory of Agency-Employed Nurses in Ontario, Canada: A Longitudinal Analysis (2011–2021) by Alyssa Drost, Houssem Eddine Ben-Ahmed and Arthur Sweetman in Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice</p
Interview: The Uniqueness and Continuing Relevance of Gabriel Marcel
No full textThe interview of Tudor Petcu with Brendan Sweetman. Brendan Sweetman is a teacher, philosopher, and writer. From Dublin, Ireland, he is Professor of Philosophy and holds the Sullivan Chair in Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Religion and Science: An Introduction (Continuum, 2010), The Vision of Gabriel Marcel (Rodopi, 2008), Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum, 2007), Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006), Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford U.P., 1992), A Gabriel Marcel Reader (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011), and, most recently, Evolution, Chance, and God (Bloomsbury, 2015). He has published more than one hundred articles and critical reviews in a variety of journals, collections, and reference works, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Philosophical Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Polish Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and New Catholic Encyclopedia (for which he was a Consulting Editor). He has been a Visiting Scholar and Keynote Speaker at several universities and colleges in the U.S., and, internationally, has given lectures in many countries. Dr Sweetman is the current President of the Gabriel Marcel Society, Vice-President for North America of World Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy (COMIUCAP), and the editor of Marcel Studies. His books and articles have been translated into several languages, including Portuguese and Italian
Inhale - Live album launch
No full textLive album launch of the album 'Inhale' by Jonathan Crossley. Supported by the ICCaT group at Liverpool University, the album was recorded at Flame Studios, Constitution Hill Johannesburg in April and June of 2022. The album features compositions by Jonathan Crossley and Nicholas Horsten with Jonathan Crossley on guitar and technologies, Carlo Mombellli on bass (Wits, Johannesburg) and Jonno Sweetman on drums (Cape Town). String were provided by the Johannesburg Philharmonic and audio recording and mixing was by JB Arthur
The Economic Return on New Immigrants' Human Capital: the Impact of Occupational Matching
No full textUsing a data set that provides information on source country employment, we examine the effect of source and host country occupational matching on earnings and the economic rate of return to the foreign human capital of immigrants in Canada. Examining occupational distributions we find that immigrants converge very quickly to the skill distribution of the Canadian population in terms of the main job worked, although four years after landing they are still below the source country distribution. We also find that for a large proportion of immigrants, their intended occupation differs from their source country occupation. Although immigrants who are able to match their source and host country occupations obtain higher earnings, successful occupational matching does not have any impact on the return to foreign potential work experience. However, immigrants who match their source and host country occupations do have a higher return to schooling, particularly for females.Immigrants, Occupational Matching, Human Capital, Canada
Inhale - Live in Johannesburg, supported by Concerts SA
No full textSouth African album launch of the album 'Inhale' by Jonathan Crossley. Supported by the ICCaT group at Liverpool University, the album was recorded at Flame Studios, Constitution Hill Johannesburg in April and June of 2022. The album features compositions by Jonathan Crossley and Nicholas Horsten with Jonathan Crossley on guitar and technologies, Carlo Mombellli on bass (Wits, Johannesburg) and Jonno Sweetman on drums (Cape Town). String were provided by the Johannesburg Philharmonic and audio recording and mixing was by JB Arthur.
This performance was sponsored by Concerts SA and their partners, The Royal Norwegian Embassy, SAMRO and IKS Consulting
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