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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options

Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...

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Ability, Parental Valuation of Education and the High School Dropout Decision

Foley, Kelly; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Green, David A. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We use a large, rich Canadian micro-level dataset to examine the channels through which family socio-economic status and unobservable characteristics affect children's decisions to drop out of high school. First, we document the strength of observable socio-economic factors: our data suggest...

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Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States

Green, David A.; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. â€“ countries that represent a wide range of literacy outcomes -- using data from the 1994 and 2003 International Adult Literacy Surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a weak negative partial...

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Knowledge, Profitability and Exit of German Car Manufacturing Firms

Krüger, Jens J.; Dreßler, Kristina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

In this paper the profitability of German car manufacturing firms is related to different indicators for the knowledge … information about the kind of exit of the firms is exploited to construct a latent profitability variable. Knowledge is … knowledge is significantly positively related to firm profitability and that each of the three knowledge forms exerts an …

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Knowledge and Creative Destruction over the Industry Life Cycle - The Case of the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a … approach that links instrumental variable estimation with the Cox regression. The main results are that all three knowledge …

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Knowledge Compensation in the German Automobile Industry

Cantner, Uwe; Dreßler, Kristina; Krüger, Jens J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle …. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity … positively influence the survival chances of firms. This paper investigates how the kinds of knowledge are able to compensate for …

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