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Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
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We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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Canada's restrictions on the role of private health insurance for publicly insured physician and hospital services are … unique among countries with universal, publicly funded health care systems. Pressure is mounting in Canada, however, to …) exit to private insurance. Australia provides a particularly promising case study for Canada regarding the dynamics of …
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Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …
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skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …
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the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship competition. …
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The paper explores whether the responses to food deprivation questions on the longitudinal Canadian National Population Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are correlated with changes in health status. While health...
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We estimate the impact of receiving pension benefits on mental well-being using China's New Rural Pension Scheme launched in 2010, the largest pension program in the world. More than four hundred million Chinese have enrolled in the program, and the program on average amounts to one fifth of...
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Data from the Youth in Transition Survey reveal that almost 40% of Canadian youth who left post-secondary education in 1999 had returned two years later. This paper investigates the extent to which schooling discontinuities affect post-graduation starting real wages and whether the latter are...
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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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