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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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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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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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and language tests and student desire to attend college. The comparison to pooled-OLS suggests that fixed effects correct …
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vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial …
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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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approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …
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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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The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
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