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The Linguistic Wage Gap in Quebec, 1901 to 1921
Geloso, Vincent; Dean, Jason - 2021
For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (composing more than a quarter of the country's population) had living standards inferior to those of English-Canadians. This was true even in the province (Québec) where the French-Canadians constituted a majority. Today, no significant...
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Linguistic distance, languages of work and wages of immigrants in Montreal
Bousmah, Ibrahim; Grenier, Gilles; Gray, David M. - In: Journal of labor research 42 (2021) 1, pp. 1-28
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Linguistic distance, languages of work and wages of immigrants in Montreal
Bousmah, Ibrahim; Grenier, Gilles; Gray, Daniel - 2018
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Appropriate Representation of Minorities : Canada's Two Types Structure and the Arab-Palestinian Minority in Israel
Saban, Ilan - 2006
Appropriate representation of minorities is a fundamental manifestation of an affirmative action policy. One of the main aims of the article is to call attention to the fact that appropriate representation (as indeed affirmative action more generally) comes in at least two different types. The...
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Transfer Pricing : The CUP -- Case Studies: Australia, US, UK, Norway and Canada
Ainsworth, Richard Thompson - 2019
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Freedom of Testation and Family Claims in Canada
Popovici, Alexandra; Smith, Lionel - 2018
This paper explores the ways in which Canadian legal orders address the tension between freedom of testation and the claims of the family of the deceased.The province of Quebec has a civilian law of succession, while the common law governs in the other provinces and in the territories. Under...
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To Boldly Go Where No Court Has Gone Before : Canada Paves the Way for Transnational Litigation Against Corporations for Human Rights Abuses?
Proulx, Vincent-Joël - 2023
Some commentators have recently proclaimed the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act to be dead. In Nevsun Resources, the Canadian Supreme Court took a seemingly bold step in providing access to justice to victims of human rights abuses against corporate entities, presumably to partly fill this void. This...
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Self-Coup and the Constitution
Hemel, Daniel J. - 2023
A “self-coup”—or “autogolpe”—is the sudden seizure of power by a President or other chief executive in contravention of a nation’s laws. Although the term “self-coup” is relatively new, the phenomenon was familiar to the Framers, who made references at the Constitutional...
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Regulation in Practice : The 'Ethical Economy' of Lawyer Regulation in Canada and a Case Study in Lawyer Deviance
Woolley, Alice - 2012
This paper tests Harry Arthur's theory that Canadian law societies engage in an "ethical economy," in which they use their regulatory powers only in high reward/low risk cases - i.e., where the practitioner is less likely to resist their authority and the offence is morally unambiguous....
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … primary focuses are on: (1) the effect of the language skills of an individual on the choice of destination among … international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to …
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