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essential heterogeneity, the paper identifies strong positive returns to education in terms of employment and wages. Marginal …
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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 …, employment in the tradable sector is almost three times as volatile as that in the non-tradable sector, and wages are about twice …
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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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unobserved skills, (ii) a changing distribution of unobserved skills, and (iii) changing volatility in wages due to factors …
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nominal wages similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly skilled workers more, while raising housing …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 …
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information about future inflation; and (iv) if UGAPs help explain historical data about wages and consumer price inflation. In …
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