Showing 1 - 10 of 793
Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261526
Consumer prices are not very responsive to movements in nominal exchange rates and their response has fallen in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940734
Using the results of a survey on accepted means of payment, the authors examine merchant preferences and perceptions of retail payment reliability, risk, and costs; the share of each type of payment method over total sales; and the costs involved in accepting payments. Models are developed for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289672
kinds of non-bank retail payments schemes currently available in Canada, illustrating each by focusing on a specific example …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289712
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292150
current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295656
Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331375
universities over the period 1970 through 2001. The individual level data are collected by Statistics Canada from all universities … in Canada and are used to analyze the evolution of male-female wage differentials of professors in Canadian universities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940713
The research on immigration has found falling labor market outcomes of immigrants in many Western countries. In Canada … foreign work experience for recent immigrant cohorts and now composes the majority of Canada's immigration. It is likely that … enter Canada under. While immigrants for the most part are selected by the government, the selection process for temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940739
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261904