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Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets : A Revealed Preference Approach Using the Shale Revolution

Cullen, Joseph - 2014

This paper examines how much carbon emissions from the electricity industry would decrease in response to a carbon price. We show how both carbon prices and cheap natural gas reduce, in a nearly identical manner, the historic cost advantage of coal-fired power plants. The shale revolution has...

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Industrial Actions in Schools : Strikes and Student Achievement

Baker, Michael - 2011

While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...

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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011

), but were no different compared to foreign applicants from Britain. 2) Employers valued experience acquired in Canada much … more than if acquired in a foreign country. Changing foreign resumes to include only experience from Canada raised callback … Canada or not, or whether the applicant obtained additional Canadian education or not had no impact on the chances for an …

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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by...

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Shareholder Democracy in Canada

Morck, Randall - 2010

. One option, for which Canada is relatively well prepared, is the British model of activist independent institutional …

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Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010

Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...

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Trade Liberalization in a Multinational-Dominated Industry : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis

Hunter, Linda - 2010

. Using an applied GE model, we find that (A) the gains to Mexico are significant and the effects on the US and Canada are … markets) results in large gains for Mexico as the Mexican industry is forced to rationalize, while losses to the US and Canada …

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