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pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
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. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of the components of the flow of …/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides independent estimates form establishment or … system, as an example of the European system, best meets the standard for international comparison purposes …
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What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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First, coverage of aggregate expenditure 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 … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess …
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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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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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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival...
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar … at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … QuickBooks Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in …
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public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is …
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