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Stuck in the Slow Lane : Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth; Burks, Stephen V. - 2021
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940's and 1950's, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317228
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Obstacles on the Road to School : The Impacts of Mobility Restrictions on Educational Performance
Miaari, Sami H. - 2020
This paper examines the impact of mobility restrictions on educational performance in the West Bank over 2000–2006 during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is characterized by a system of mobility restrictions enforced through physical barriers such as checkpoints. Using novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826246
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2011
Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127955
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The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations
Warburton, William P. - 2011
Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. Yet, there is little research looking at these causal impacts; neither is there much empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131415
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec : A Microeconomic Approach
Fortin, Bernard - 2011
data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Household Spending. According to our results, Quebec's underground economy amounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131981
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production … production in the U.S., but not in Canada. The cyclical indicator, the adult male unemployment rate, has a weak positive effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134990
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Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training
Dostie, Benoit - 2010
In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. We estimate a standard production function controlling for endogenous training decisions because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136722
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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139041
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139049