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as they change jobs, voluntarily or involuntarily. The model, calibrated to the United States and Canada, accounts for … one-third of the firmsize wage premium. Regarding the earnings gap between Canada and the United States, the model finds …
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In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of … costly labour adjustment and temporary workers. The calibrated model captures some features of job reallocation in Canada …
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This article investigates the stability of Okun's law for Canada and the United States using a time varying parameter … unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States. -- Business …
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across sectorspecific labour markets in the economy. In Canada, such differences are substantial. From 1991 to 2010 …
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that exchange rate fluctuations have significant long-term effects on the labour input of Canada's manufacturing industries …
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We use data from online job postings listed on a job board to study how the demand for jobs linked to new technologies during the COVID-19 crisis responded to pandemic mitigation policies. We classify job postings into a standard occupation classification, using text analytics, and we group...
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Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the U.S. over the past few decades. We identify and estimate a general model of log wage residuals that incorporates: (i) changing returns to unobserved skills, (ii) a changing distribution of...
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We examine local labor markets in the United States 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 … nominal wages similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly skilled workers more, while raising housing …
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In this paper, we assess several methods that have been used to measure the Canadian trend unemployment rate (TUR). We also consider improvements and extensions to some existing methods. The assessment is based on four criteria: (i) the extent to which methods provide explanations for changes in...
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We provide evidence regarding the dynamic behaviour of net labour flows across U.S. states in response to a positive technology shock. Technology shocks are identified as disturbances that increase relative state productivity in the long run for 226 state pairs, encompassing 80 per cent of...
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