We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …

control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

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

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