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Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada
Baker, Michael - 2010
proceed by using the large variation across birth cohorts in income security entitlements in Canada that arise from reforms to …
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
Currie, Janet - 2010
There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or...
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...
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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants
Bloom, David E.; Gunderson, Morley - 2022
, although the wage catch-up is not complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in … quality of immigrants' labor market skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a … that the variance of immigrant earnings increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no …
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Incentive Effects of Social Assistance : A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lemieux, Thomas; Milligan, Kevin S. - 2021
We examine the incentive effects of transfer programs using a unique policy episode. Prior to 1989, social assistance recipients without children in Quebec who were under age 30 received benefits 60 percent lower than recipients older than 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to...
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Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change : Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
Brown, W. Mark - 2017
, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to …
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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior
LaFave, Dan - 2020
The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...
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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
Fink, Günther - 2018
Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...
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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
Bellora, Cecilia - 2017
Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...
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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Maitra, Pushkar - 2014
Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...
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