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For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …
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Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy …
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Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …
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We explore recent trends in the labour force participation rates of men aged 55-69 in Canada. Following steady declines … are likely important factors driving recent trends in older men's participation in Canada …
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assistance benefits reduce employment, and more suggestive evidence that they affect marital status and living arrangements. The …
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada …
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at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … QuickBooks Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in …
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We conducted a resume correspondence experiment to measure discrimination in hiring faced by Indigenous Peoples in the United States (Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). We sent employers realistic 13,516 resumes for common jobs (retail sales, kitchen staff, server, janitor,...
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Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate entry of domestic firms into the same industry and...
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from adopting gaming. Four years after tribes open casinos, employment has increased by 26 percent, and tribal population … has increased by about 12 percent, resulting in an increase in employment to population ratios of five percentage points … their counties, most of this growth in employment is due to growth in non-Native American employment. The increase in …
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