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Elasticity values calculated at the macro level are biased as estimates of micro elasticities, and vice versa. We … derive convenient expressions for aggregation/disaggregation biases in an Almost Ideal Demand System. Using after-tax data we … distribution parameters to evaluate the differences between macro and micro elasticities for alternative demand system parameter …
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We present a new class of social cost-of-living indices and a nonparametric framework for estimating these and other social cost-of-living indices. Common social cost-of-living indices can be understood as aggregator functions of approximations of individual cost-of-living indices. The Consumer...
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Starting with a theoretical QUAIDS model at the micro level, an approximate aggregation is developed that allows the model to be applied to time series at the macro level (The approximated aggregation holds for a "representative" consumer with utility equal to the harmonic mean of the individual...
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We present a new class of social cost-of-living indices and a nonparametric framework for estimating these and other social cost-of- living indices. Common social cost-of-living indices can be understood as aggregator functions of approximations of individual cost-of-living indices. The Consumer...
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Like many industrialized countries, Canada is experiencing significant population aging and this phenomenon, inherited …
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As for more than ten years, my name has been many time associated with Statistics Canada’s LifePaths Microsimulation …
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developed in Canada in the last two decades. Morever, information was provided about the people or entities that participated in … Association (IMA) as well as on Statistics Canada‘s Internet page. …
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Little comparative research exists on health experiences and conditions of minority groups in Canada and the United …. Logistic regression analysis of data from the 2002–2003 Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health shows that the joint effect … largely insignifi cant in Canada but considerable in the U.S. Non-White native and foreign-born Americans within both 45-to-64 …
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migration of immigrants in Canada. …
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An abundance of literature links socio-economic status to health and health care in Canada and other countries. Recent …, specialists and hospitals) in Canada between 1978 and 2003. The relationships between socio-economic status (SES) and utilization …
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