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The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in black employment and incarceration. Using...
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attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and … generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth …
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Canada and the United States. The simulation model determines the perfect foresight transition path of an economy in which … handling changes in demographics and fiscal policies, the model can be run for closed or open economies.In comparing Canada … interest rates obtained from the U.S. simulations are then used in the Canadian simulations. In the Canada simulations, Canada …
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paper discusses the results of an exceptionally good natural experiment that has been provided by Canada and the U.S. over …
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in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the ‘push' from weak labor markets versus the … the growth path observed in Canada …
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We compare patterns of unemployment and joblessness between Canada and the U.S. during the Great Recession. Similar to … previous findings for the U.S. in Kroft et al. [2016], we document a rise in long-term unemployment in Canada. This increase is … the extended matching model, we create a new historical vacancy series for Canada based on relative employment in …
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We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data …. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage … similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly-skilled workers more, while raising housing costs less. Chinese …
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United States, Great Britain, and Canada suggests that higher dividend tax rates lower consumption. This is consistent with …
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its predictions using price differences between the United States and Canada – a country that represents an example of a …
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Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each … regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes … mobility southern parts of the United States than with the rest of Canada, and the fact that these areas represent a much …
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