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Inequality across the Generations in North America and Europe
Corak, Miles - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 4, pp. 34-39
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First Author Determinants: An Empirical Analysis
van Praag, Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2006
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M.S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers_new, which is the convention in theeconomics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose lastname initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been afirst author more...
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The role of production sharing and trade in the transmission of the great recession
Wibe, Jacob - 2012
times more than real GDP in the U.S. and Mexico, and by a factor of five in Canada. The decline in trade and output was … benchmark calibration can account for 72% of the fall in output in Canada, 19% of the fall in output in Mexico, and about two …
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The acceptability of layoffs and pay cuts: comparing North America with Germany
Gerlach, Knut; Levine, David; Stephan, Gesine; Struck, Olaf - 2006
Substantial evidence shows that North Americans are generally more accepting of the market than Europeans and attribute market outcomes to a larger degree to effort or skill. This article discusses the perceived fairness of layoffs and pay cuts in North America and Germany. We expect North...
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
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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The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates
Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - 2004
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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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?
Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - 2011
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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The Evolution of Male-Female Wages Differentials in Canadian Universities: 1970-2001
Warman, Casey; Woolley, Frances; Worswick, Christopher - 2006
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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You Can Take it with You! The Returns to Foreign Human Capital of Male Temporary Foreign Workers
Warman, Casey - 2007
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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