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Preparing for the future of work in Canada
OECD - 2020
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Preparing for the Future of Work in Canada
OECD - 2020
COVID-19 has led to a labour market shock in Canada and is likely to generate a profound reflection on production and consumption habits. COVID‑19 is also likely to accelerate automation as firms look to new technologies to pandemic proof their operations. While automation offers the...
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Labour force participation rate
OECD - 20XX
The labour force participation rates is calculated as the labour force divided by the total working-age population. The working age population refers to people aged 15 to 64. This indicator is broken down by age group and it is measured as a percentage of each age group.
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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene - 2005
"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare
Krebs, Tom - 2005
"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522578
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? : some empirical evidence
Milanovic, Branko - 2005
"The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522629
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Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
Anton, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; Schmalz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present a mechanism based on managerial incentives through which common ownership affects product market outcomes. Firm-level variation in common ownership causes variation in managerial incentives and productivity across firms, which leads to intra-industry and intra-firm cross-market...
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Estimating Gravity from the Short to the Long Run : A Simple Solution to the 'International Elasticity Puzzle'
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
for time-interval-varying depreciation-cum-adjustment. A time-varying trade elasticity in the structural gravity model is … implied. Our methods explain the 'international elasticity puzzle,' the discrepancy between trade elasticity estimates from … applied to the same data generates a distribution of trade elasticity estimates that vary from 0.4 in the short run to 4.8 in …
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Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority : Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
Mueller-Smith, Michael; Pyle, Benjamin; Walker, Caroline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the impact of adult prosecution on recidivism and employment trajectories for adolescent, first-time felony defendants. We use extensive linked Criminal Justice Admin- istrative Record System and socio-economic data from Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit). Using the discrete age...
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Pandemic-Era Inflation Drivers and Global Spillovers
Di Giovanni, Julian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Silva, Álvaro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
and wages. We further measure the relative importance of different types of shocks on inflation across countries over time …
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