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In the last decade, the proportion and academic performance of women who pursue university degrees has increased relative to men in a range of developing countries (OECD, 2015). Nonetheless, the percentage of undergraduate economics degrees awarded to women has remained between 30% and 35%...
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are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates … of return ; Canada …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the …
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This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor … point post-1990 increase in the Canada-US labour productivity gap …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
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This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … the overall MFP difference between Canada and the United States to its industry origins and estimates the contributions of … capital intensity is as high in Canada as in the United States; but there are considerable differences in Canada's capital …
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the relative capital intensity of Canada and the United States. To do so, the paper applies common depreciation rates to ….S. business sector. This is the net result of quite different ratios at the individual asset level. Canada has as higher intensity … of engineering infrastructure assets per dollar of gross domestic product produced. Canada has a lower intensity of …
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