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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
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and language tests and student desire to attend college. The comparison to pooled-OLS suggests that fixed effects correct …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of U.S. skilled …
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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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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 is …
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comparison, broadband internet is a substitute for workers without high school diploma, lowering their marginal productivity …
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This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social representations, norms, conventions, legislation, and organisations). The observed institutional...
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This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent financial crisis using firm-level data. First, it provides comparable estimates on firm-level labor adjustment by country, industry and firm size. Second, using variance...
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