SOCI 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ethnography, Habituation
26 Nov 2017
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Institutions versus technology: both trends and levels of labour market indicators differ across oecd countries. This suggests that institutions matter at least as much as technology. From 1980 to 2004 canada"s rates were between 2 and 4 percentage points higher than those of the us. Canada"s unemployment rate might have risen earlier relative to that of the us had it not been for the commodities boom of the 1970s: there are, however, a number of measurement difficulties that make this comparison difficult. We can illustrate this with estimates of the effects of these difficulties in the late 1990s. Effect on canadian unemployment rate if statistics canada practices and context were adjusted to us bureau of labor statistics practices and context 0. 2: summing the effects of these measurement difficulties: if statistics canada had the same practices/context as the us bureau of labor statistics its unemployment rate would be about 0. 8 of a percentage point lower.
