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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … provincial vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy …
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Little is known about whether breastfeeding may prevent disabilities throughout childhood. We evaluate the effects of breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Interview Survey for a large nationally representative sample...
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This paper is an empirical investigation of the effect of poor early life-cycle health on post-secondary educational choices and outcomes. We use panel data for a sample of 10,430 individuals who were high school seniors in the spring of 1972, and who were re-surveyed in October of each year...
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. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of the components of the flow of …/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides independent estimates form establishment or … system, as an example of the European system, best meets the standard for international comparison purposes …
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income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … percentage points in Canada. We also find that the 7 percentage point gradient difference between the two countries is reduced by … larger in the US than in Canada before the age of 65, but about the same after 65. Our results are therefore consistent with …
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.K., and Canada. Our main motivation is to see whether unionization can account for differences and trends in wage inequality … in industrialized countries. We focus on the U.S., the U.K., and Canada because the institutional arrangements governing …-union sectors that can be used as a comparison group for the union sector. Using comparable micro data for the last two decades, we …
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We compare patterns of unemployment and joblessness between Canada and the U.S. during the Great Recession. Similar to … previous findings for the U.S. in Kroft et al. [2016], we document a rise in long-term unemployment in Canada. This increase is … the extended matching model, we create a new historical vacancy series for Canada based on relative employment in …
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …
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