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Kräkel, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...

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Analyzing Cost Efficient Production Behavior Under Economies of Scope: A Nonparametric Methodology

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram De; Vermeulen, Frederic - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In designing a production model for firms that generate multiple outputs, we take as a starting point that such multi-output production refers to economies of scope, which in turn originate from joint input use and input externalities. We provide a nonparametric characterization of cost...

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Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

At the firm level, revenue and costs are well measured but prices and quantities are not. This paper shows that because of these data limitations estimates of returns to scale at the firm level are for the revenue function, not production function. Given this observation, the paper argues that,...

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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada

Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …

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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …

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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment …

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Labour Supply and Taxes: New Estimates of the Responses of Wives to Husbands' Wages

Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...

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The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …

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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

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