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'exogenous' events such as war. This paper adds Canada to this story by looking at trade and price data, as well as contemporary …
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Using census data from 2001 to 2016, we provide evidence that the French language is gaining ground in Quebec. We show that the apparent decline of French in Quebec is linked to a rise in multilingualism, especially when French is one of the multiple languages spoken. We argue that the census...
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The colony of Lower Canada, now the modern-day province of Quebec in Canada, is presented as having experienced a …
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It is a little-known fact that Canada adopted its own antitrust laws one year before the landmark Sherman Antitrust Act … fell faster than the national price index. I argue that these findings militate for the position that the origins of Canada …
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We argue that the system of seigneurial tenure used in the province of Quebec until the mid-nineteenth century -- a system which allowed significant market power in the establishment of plants, factories and mills, combined with restrictions on the mobility of the labor force within each...
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This paper uses the censuses of 1842 of Canada East (modern day Quebec) and Canada West (modern day Ontario) to help … explain the historical differences in living standards between Canada and the United States. The argument made in this paper … is that Canada East was substantially poorer than the rest of Canada. The wage and price data contained in the censuses …
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Generally, Canada has bee ... …
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This paper uses a novel dataset of prices and wages from the French colony of Quebec (Canada's second largest province …
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A new consumer price index for Canada, 1870-1913 is constructed, which includes prices for clothing and household … textile product used for clothing and household furnishings at this time, even in Canada, whose winters are harsh, fell by 49 …
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society? In this paper, we employ Canada’s longitudinal cohorts of income mobility between 1982 and 2018 to answer this …
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