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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …
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at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous Quick …-Books Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in the UK …
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This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...
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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....
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current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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