Research Catalog

Title

Services industries and the knowledge-based economy / general editors, Richard G. Lipsey & Alice O. Nakamura.

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Lipsey, Richard G., 1928-
• Nakamura, Alice.
• Canada. Industry Canada.

Description

xiii, 615 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Industry Canada research series, 1700-2001 ; 13

Uniform Title

Industry Canada research series 13.

Subject

• Service industries > Canada
• Services (Industrie) > Canada

Note

• Issued also in French under title: Les industries de services et l'économie du savoir.
• Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Issued By (note)

• Co-published by: Industry Canada.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Richard G. Libsey & Alice O. Nakamura -- Concepts and measures of productivity / W. Erwin Diewert & Alice O. Nakamura -- Policy challenges in the new economy / Richard G. Lipsey -- The services economy in Canada : an overview / Ram C. Acharya -- Relative wage patterns among the highly educated in a knowledge-based economy / Rene Morissette, Yuri Ostrovsky & Garnett Picot -- Knowledge-economy and services : perspectives and issues / William Watson -- Location effects, locational spillovers and the performance of Canadian information technology firms / Steven Globerman, Daniel Shapiro & Aidan Vining.
• Liberalization in China's key services sectors following accession to the World Trade Organization : some scenarios and issues of measurement / John Whalley -- Canada's experience with foreign direct investment : how different are services? / Walid Hejazi -- Productivity growth in the services industries : patterns, issues and the role of measurement / Anita Wolfl -- Innovations in the Canadian services sector / Petr Hanel -- Technology and the financial services industry / Edwin H. Neave.
• Liberalization of trade and investment in telecommunications services : a Canadian perspective / Zhiqi Chen -- The rural/urban location pattern of advanced services firms in an international perspective / C. Michael Wernerheim & Christopher A. Sharpe -- Productivity growth in services industries : a Canadian success story / Someshwar Rao, Andrew Sharpe & Jianmin Tang -- Services and the new economy : data needs and challenges / W. Erwin Diewert -- Services industries in a knowledge-based economy : summing up / Pierre Sauve.

ISBN

1552381498

LCCN

^^2006389955

OCLC

• 63705467
• SCSB-12597634

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Harvard Library