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Event
The Bank of Canada should weigh how income inequality affects monetary policy effectiveness as it pursues its 2 percent inflation target.
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Op-Ed
Une chatte n’y retrouverait pas ses petits dans le fatras de chiffres présentés dans l’énoncé économique de la ministre des Finances Chrystia Freeland, lundi dernier. À telle enseigne que la Nationale s’excusait dans une note à ses clients d’une « explication quelque peu tortueuse ».
Comment y voir clair quand l’économie et les finances publiques baignent encore dans une grande…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jeremy Kronick and Steve Ambler
To: Bank of Canada Watchers
Date: September 10, 2020
Re: The GDP Story is Not as Bleak as Reported
Statistics Canada released its initial estimate of second-quarter GDP last month. Output dropped by 11.5 percent compared with the first quarter and by a little more than 13 percent compared with the second quarter of 2019. This is the…
Op-Ed
We knew the number would be big. Just how big was the question.
Statistics Canada released its initial estimate of second-quarter GDP on Friday. Output dropped by 11.5 per cent compared with first-quarter GDP and by a little over 13 per cent compared with the second quarter of 2019. This is the largest recorded quarterly decline since Statistics Canada began reporting quarterly GDP numbers in…
Intelligence Memos
From: Rosalie Wyonch
To: Canadians Concerned about Automation
Date: December 9, 2020
Re: The Robots Are Still Coming, but Not for Everyone’s Job
Technological change is a driving force behind economic growth. It can improve productivity for existing goods and services, meaning the same output can be achieved with fewer inputs, or more can be produced with the same amount…
Research
Key Demographic Groups in Jobs more Vulnerable to Automation
Key demographic groups are more vulnerable to job loss through automation than average.
Author Rosalie Wyonch assesses the likely impact of technological automation on Canada’s labour market and compares these results to past predictions.
She finds a lower proportion of employment at high risk of automation (about 22 percent) than most…
