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Why Do Voters Demand Universal Government Benefits?

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2005

recipients. I use a model of tax and spending incidence for Canada in 1990 to see which conjecture helps best to understand the …

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ESTRATEGIAS CUANTITATIVAS DE VALOR Y RETORNOS POR ACCION DE LARGO

Rubio, Fernando - EconWPA - 2005

más importantes empresas que componen el mercado de Canadá, España, Europa, USA y Gran Bretaña. Se utiliza la metodología …

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Distributive Politics in a Strong Party System: Evidence from Canadian Job Grant Programs

Crampton, Eric - EconWPA - 2002

The distributive politics literature following Weingast (1979) predicts majoritarian redistribution within countries governed by strong party systems. This prediction is tested using evidence from Canadian job creation grant programs active during the mid-1990s. Results provide strong evidence...

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On the Evidence of Non-Linear Structure in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment. Contrary to the conclusion reached in Murray et al. (1993), and using a corrected for bias simple non-parametric test (SNT), we reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for...

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The Efficiency of Canadian Capital Markets: Some Bank of Canada Research

Hendry, Scott; King, Michael R. - EconWPA - 2004

Bank of Canada is interested in the efficient functioning of capital markets through each of its responsibilities for … conducted thus far suggests that Canadian capital markets are efficient for a capital market of Canada's size but are less …

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Testing and Estimating Persistence in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

A vital implication of unemployment persistence applies to the Bank of Canada's disinflation policies since it …

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Understanding Social Capital: Its Nature and Manifestiations in Rural Canada

Reimer, Bill - EconWPA - 2005

each type. Using national community and household data collected as part of a research project on rural Canada (The New …

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Democracy of Pressure Groups

Bhandari, Jayant - EconWPA - 2003

· The report contains positive references to profit, capital, liberty and freedom (including free-market economy), and the struggle of the world’s poor in the developing world – if we dared, and cared to ask them, that is, to achieve these. These references might be too sacrilegious to be...

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Distribution of the Economic Gains of the 1990s

Parham, Dean; Barnes, Paula; Roberts, Paul; Kennett, Sharon - EconWPA - 2001

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster productivity growth accounted for over 90 per cent of the acceleration. „h The … capital shares in economywide income were stable throughout the 1990s. Concerns that productivity-enhancing factors have …

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ICT Use and Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The increased use of information and communications technology (ICT) has helped to raise Australia’s productivity … Productivity: A Synthesis from Studies of Australian Firms concludes that the stronger growth in the use of ICT in the second half … of the 1990s added up to 1/2 a percentage point in the acceleration in annual labour productivity growth, principally as …

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