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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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The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....
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We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is...
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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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. -- Stochastic dominance ; empirical likelihood ; Canada ; income distribution …
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The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of attending university, by liquidity constraints and capital market imperfections that may modify these calculations and, hence, by the family income of prospective students. Family circumstances...
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This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model … differences in social assistance participation. The empirical results indicate that a "welfare trap" does exist in Canada, but the … conditions ; transition ; Canada …
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immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …
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This paper identifies the types of immigrants that Canada has recruited to foster modern Canadian economic development … and assesses how effective Canada has been in recruiting and retaining these required immigrants in the 21st century … skilled immigrants resulted from a series of distinct labour market policies adopted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and …
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