. In comparison to the U.S., mortality levels in Canada improved at a similar rate despite lower initial levels. Inequality … Canada and compare its development to trends in the U.S. We find strong reductions in mortality rates across both genders and …

We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … positive increase in the rate of pay growth, holding all else equal. This linkage appears stronger in the US than in Canada … productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At …

the bias resulting from regulation. We measure the bias for the manufacturing sectors of three countries, the U.S., Canada …

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 …

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 …

its predictions using price differences between the United States and Canada - a country that represents an example of a …

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 …

in the US and Canada. In the US very low birthweight males face excess mortality compared to their female counterparts. I …, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps … related, the parenting of first born boys in Canada in the first years of life is more likely to be confrontational …

income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … percentage points in Canada. We also find that the 7 percentage point gradient difference between the two countries is reduced by … larger in the US than in Canada before the age of 65, but about the same after 65. Our results are therefore consistent with …

, 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 …