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The Changing Labor Market Position of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1994

Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …

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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1989

skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …

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Canada-U.S. tax comparisons

Shoven, John B. (ed.); Whalley, John (contributor) - 1992

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Regional Effects of Taxes in Canada : An Applied General Equilibrium Approach

Jones, Rich - 1986

This paper reports on an applied general equilibrium regional model for Canada which is used to investigate the …

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Home and Regional Biases and Border Effects in Armington Type Models

Whalley, John - 2006

We discuss biases in preferences and their trade effects in terms of impacts on non-neutral trade flows motivated by recent literature on both home bias and the border effect. These terms take on multiple definitions in the literature and are often used interchangeably even though they differ....

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Meals on Wheels : Restaurant and Home Meal Production and the Exemption of Food from Sales and Value Added Taxes

Iorwerth, Aled Ab - 1998

This paper discusses efficiency considerations underlying the widespread exemption of food from sales and value added taxes, in contrast to the distributional considerations usually used to justify them, analyzing the implications for tax policy. Although there are increasing returns in both...

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VAT Base Broadening, Self Supply, and The Informal Sector

Piggott, John - 1998

We develop a general equilibrium tax model to evaluate the impacts of equal yield base broadening in indirect taxes from high rate narrow based (typically manufactures) taxes to broad based taxes (including services) such as a VAT. We capture differences in choice of mode of supply between...

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Decomposing the Welfare Costs of Capital Tax Distortions : The Importance of Risk Assumptions

Hamilton, Bob - 1991

corporate tax in Canada. These distortions are decomposed into three broad categories: inter-asset distortions; inter …

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