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Immigration and Internal Mobility in Canada
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2014
Canada. Particular attention is given to the Canadian program of TFWs that has intensified enormously over the last 30 years …
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian - 2012
firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are … Canada-US regional data, we structurally estimate the model and simulate the impacts of removing all trade barriers generated … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097109
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...
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Are Migration Policies that Induce Skilled (Unskilled) Migration Beneficial (Harmful) for the Host Country?
Michael, Michael S. - 2021
This paper investigates the welfare consequences of immigration policies in a model with two types of labour, skilled and unskilled, and international capital mobility. The paper examines the effect of government policies - which change the immigration cost and causes immigration of one type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317391
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Trade, Wages, and Profits
Egger, Hartmut - 2012
, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101194
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'Unwarranted' Wage Changes and the Return on Capital
Katsimi, Margarita - 2009
models, in which “unwarranted” wages changes and the return on capital are endogenously determined, do not necessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156013
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Age, Wage and Productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2021
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316239
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Returns to ICT Skills
Falck, Oliver - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technology (ICT) in modern labor markets? We answer this question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically induced variation in broadband Internet availability that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997356
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Raising Taxes through Equalization
Smart, Michael - 2007
A simple theory suggests that a common form of federal horizontal equalization grants should cause subnational governments to levy higher tax rates, distorting local tax bases and so increasing federal transfers. To test this, I examine Canadian provincial tax policies in the 1972-2002 period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777492
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Political Competition and Convergence to Fundamentals : With Application to the Political Business Cycle and the Size of Government
Ferris, J. Stephen - 2006
We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...
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