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The Evolving External Orientation of Manufacturing Industries : Evidence from Four Countries
Campa, José Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2021
Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …
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The Effects of Variable Capital Utilization on the Measurement and Properties of Sectoral Productivity : Some International Evidence
Baxter, Marianne; Farr, Dorsey - 2021
productivity residuals in the United States and Canada. Using data on 19 manufacturing industries, we study the behavior of …
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Outsourcing When Investments are Specific and Complementary
Lileeva, Alla - 2014
Using the universe of large Canadian manufacturing firms in 1988 and 1996, we investigate to what extent outsourcing decision can be explained by a simple property rights model. The unique availability of disaggregate information on outputs as well as inputs permits the construction of a very...
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Tax Credits and Small Firm R&D Spending
Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014
In 2004, Canada changed the eligibility rules for its Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax …
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual Ramp;D...
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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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