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Sheltered income : estimating income under-reporting in Canada, 1998 and 2004

Dunbar, Geoffrey R.; Fu, Chunling - 2015

extent of income under-reporting in Canada in 1998 and 2004. We estimate that the proportion of households under … evidence that income underreporting is pervasive and is not confined to households that report self-employment income in the …

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Firm size and productivity

Leung, Danny (contributor); Meh, Césaire Assah (contributor) - 2008

employment distribution over firm size categories between Canada and the United States can account for the Canada-U.S. labour … this relationship, the difference in the employment distribution over firm sizes between Canada and the United States can … distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the …

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Credit constraints and consumer spending

Beaton, Kimberly - 2009

This paper examines the relationship between aggregate consumer spending and credit availability in the United States. The author finds that consumer spending falls (rises) in response to a reduction (increase) in credit availability. Moreover, she provides a formal assessment of the possibility...

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Housing affordability and parental income support

Allen, Jason; Carmichael, Kyra; Clark, Robert; Li, Shaoteng - 2024 - Last updated: July 26, 2024

In many countries, the cost of housing has greatly outpaced income growth, leading to a housing affordability crisis. Leveraging Canadian loan-level data and quasi-experimental variation in payment-to-income constraints, we document an increasing reliance of first-time homebuyers on financial...

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Labor market participation, unemployment and monetary policy

Campolmi, Alessia; Gnocchi, Stefano - 2014

We incorporate a participation decision in a standard New Keynesian model with matching frictions and show that treating the labor force as constant leads to incorrect evaluation of alternative policies. We also show that the presence of a participation margin mitigates the Shimer critique.

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Expansion of higher education, employment and wages : evidence from the Russian transition

Kyui, Natalia - 2013

essential heterogeneity, the paper identifies strong positive returns to education in terms of employment and wages. Marginal …

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The intergenerational correlation of employment : is there a role for work culture?

Galassi, Gabriela; Koll, David; Mayr, Lukas - 2019

We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …

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