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How do communication costs affect the production of new ideas and inventions? To answer this question, we study the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post in Great Britain in 1840. This reform replaced the previous system of expensive distance-based postage fees with a uniform low rate of one...
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For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …
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The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) provides a unique window on the effects of trade liberalization. It was an …
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The contracting practices of franchisors outside of theirdomestic markets have received limited attention in the empirical literature on franchising, mostly due to data limitations. We exploit a newly assembled data set that allows us not only to describe the contracting practices of US and...
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Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the … fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found that for the U.S. a simple supply-demand model fit the pattern of ….S. and Canada. In both instances, the relative demand for more-educated labor shifts out at the same, consistent rate. Both …
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countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
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The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the … seven adjectives, a feature more prevalent in the United States than in Canada, (black, white, Hispanic and Asian in the … United States; French, English and Ethnic in Canada) have lower levels of trust than those who consider themselves Canadians …
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, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood … industry has sought to have countervailing duties imposed upon Canadian lumber imports. The U.S. interests argue that Canada …
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States and Canada. First, the Canadian and United States industry-level job creation and destruction rates are remarkably … similar. Industries with high (low) job creation in the U.S. exhibit high (low) job creation in Canada. The same is true for …
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