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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … with an increase in the share of the top percentile group. Likewise, a fall in the marginal tax rate on investment income …

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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada

Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …

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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment : A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands

Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - 2004

market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional … dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …

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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. …

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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008

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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