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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U …
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Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … relative to national account is examined. Coverage rates are highest in Canada and the UK. Over the past three decades coverage … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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Western countries. This paper compares mortality inequality in Canada and the U.S. over the period 1990/91 through 2010/11. In … Canada, mortality inequality remained constant among the youngest, but increased for men over 24 and for women over 14. In …
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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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Does Canada's publicly funded, single payer health care system deliver better health outcomes and distribute health … of health status using JCUSH (The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health) and other surveys. We find a somewhat higher … incidence of chronic health conditions in the U.S. than in Canada but somewhat greater U.S. access to treatment for these …
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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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