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The proportion female in the economics profession in the U.S. has been low historically compared with other disciplines. Although the percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women and the representation of women on faculties have increased over time, economics still lags many other fields....
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This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
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One of the most consistent findings in studies of electoral behaviour is that individuals with higher education have a greater propensity to vote. The nature of this relationship is much debated, with US studies generally finding evidence of a causal relationship, while European studies...
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Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …
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to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source … countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the … educational attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education …
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induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the …
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