Surendra Gera

Biographic Data

ID5246105
NAMESurendra Gera
GIVEN NAMESSurendra
FAMILY NAMEGera
SIGNATUREGERA S
AFFILIATIONSIndustry CanadaOttawa, Ontario
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS13
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX2

  • Benchmarking Canada's Performance in the Global Competition for Mobile Talent

    Surendra Gera, Thitima SongsakulARTICLECanadian Public Policy2007Cited by: 6References: 1

    Competing in the international arena for skilled workers is crucial for Canada to foster its innovation and economic prosperity. Attracting and retaining skilled workers are among the most important challenges facing Canadian policy makers. The key objective of the paper is to assess how Canada is faring in this matter in comparison to key OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. The paper examines international mo…

  • The Knowledge-Based Economy

    Surendra Gera, Kurt MangARTICLECanadian Public Policy1998Cited by: 4References: 5

    s of Industry Canada research volumes, working papers, occasional papers, discussion papers and the full text of our quarterly newsletter, MICRO, can be accessed via STRATEGIS, the Department's online business information site, at http://strategis.ic.gc.ca. Comments should be addressed to: Someshwar Rao Director, Strategic Investment Analysis Micro-Economic Policy Analysis Industry Canada 235 Queen Street, 5th Floor, West Tower Ottawa (Ontario) K…

  • Canadian Unemployment

    Miriam Smith, Surendra Gera et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1993Cited by: 1

  • Creating Jobs in the Private Sector

    S F Kaliski, Surendra GeraARTICLECanadian Public Policy1989

  • An Evaluation of the Canadian Employment Tax Credit Program

    Surendra GeraARTICLECanadian Public Policy1987References: 1

    Dans cet article, nous faisons le bilan du Programme canadien de credits d'impot a l'emploi (PCCI). Nous visons principalement a evaluer l'efficacite du programme en termes de benefices et de couts sociaux et a mesurer son impact net ou marginal sur l'emploi. Nous voulons determiner aussi, en second lieu, si les participants au programme ont pu recevoir une formation a leur travail et donc des benefices a long terme. D'abord, les resultats demont…

  • More on the Returns to Job Search

    Surendra Gera, Abrar HasanARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1982

    Aaron (ed.), Inflation and the Income Tax (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1976). Tanzi, Vito, Measuring the Sensitivity of the Federal Income Tax from Cross-section Data: A New Approach, this REVIEW 51 (2) (1969), 206-209. , 'The Sensitivity of the Yield of the U.S. Individual Income Tax and the Tax Reforms of the Past Decade, International Monetary Fund Staff Papers 23 (2) (1976), 441-454. United States Statistical Abstract (annually),…

  • Occupation and Job Location Patterns

    Open AccessSurendra Gera, Peter KühnARTICLECanadian Geographies /…1979Cited by: 2References: 5

    The main findings of this analysis of the job location patterns by occupational groups in the Toronto CMA are as follows: The geographical distribution ofjobs of the different occupational groups varied considerably in the Toronto CMA, the principal pattern being relative centralization of white‐collar jobs and relative decentralization of blue‐collar jobs. Skilled clerical‐sales‐services workers faced the greatest degree ofjob concentration in t…