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subjective well-being differ greatly among countries. Life satisfaction scores for immigrants to Canada from up to 100 source …
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We use a variant of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to examine individuals' implicit attitudes towards various ethnic groups. Using a population from the Democratic Republic of Congo, we find that the IAT measures show evidence of an implicit bias in favor of one's own ethnicity. Individuals...
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-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect …
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To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
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We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … positive increase in the rate of pay growth, holding all else equal. This linkage appears stronger in the US than in Canada …
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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 …
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the bias resulting from regulation. We measure the bias for the manufacturing sectors of three countries, the U.S., Canada …
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We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data …. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage … similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly-skilled workers more, while raising housing costs less. Chinese …
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Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each … regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes … mobility southern parts of the United States than with the rest of Canada, and the fact that these areas represent a much …
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