T Scott Murray's research while affiliated with Statistics Canada and other places
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Publication (1)
T he Canadian economy experienced a rapid increase in the demand for skills and specialized knowledge in the 1990s (OECD, HRDC and Statistics Canada, 1998). Virtually all job creation occurred in knowledge-based occupationsprofes-sional, managerial and technical. The employment rate (that is, the percentage employed) among highly edu-cated persons...
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... But Beckstead and Vinodrai's classification scheme also includes workers outside of science and technology (e.g., managers in finance, communications, administrative services) that more closely accord with Lavoie and Roy's second criteria, namely the " provision of expert opinion " . Following Zhao, Drew and Murray (2000a Murray ( , 2000b), Beckstead and Vinodrai also extend the concept of knowledge workers to occupational categories that are apt to be viewed by some as more controversial, such as teachers, nurses and arts and cultural professionals. The authors explored many of these " marginal cases " in their multivariate analysis of relative wage rates, and found sufficient evidence, based on a combination of wage and educational factors, to warrant their inclusion. ...
