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A Penny for Your Thoughts
Hanlon, W. Walker; Heblich, Stephan; Monte, Ferdinando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post in Great Britain in 1840. This reform replaced the previous system of expensive distance-based postage fees with a uniform low rate of one...
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Canada-U.S. tax comparisons
Shoven, John B. (ed.); Whalley, John (contributor) - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000326015
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The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Kovak, Brian K.; Morrow, Peter M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor …
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our …
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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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Returns to Different Postsecondary Investments : Institution Type, Academic Programs, and Credentials
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Smith, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is highly differentiated, with a variety of options that differ by credential (associates degree, bachelor's degree,...
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Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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Productivity and Pay in the US and Canada
Greenspon, Jacob; Stansbury, Anna M.; Summers, Lawrence … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 … productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At …
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The Canada-U.S. Auto Pact of 1965 : An Experiment in Selective Trade Liberalization
Fuss, Melvyn - 1986
In this paper we analyse the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact, a selective …sides of the Canada-U.S. border before 1965, and no significant new entry …
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Why Have Unemployment Rates in Canada and the U.S. Diverged?
Ashenfelter, Orley - 1986
gap has widened. We also find that unemployment in Canada was 2 to 3 percentage points higher in 1983 and 1984 than … predicted by Canadian output. We have investigated a variety of hypotheses to explain the slow growth of employment in Canada … unemployment in Canada is due to differences in the regulation of the labor market in the two countries. Minimum wage laws and …
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