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How do workplace smoking laws work? : Quasi-experimental evidence from local laws in Ontario, Canada

Carpenter, Christopher - 2007

using the differential timing of adoption of over 100 very strong local smoking by-laws in Ontario, Canada over the period …

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Migrant nurses and care workers rights in Canada

Salami, Bukola; Amodu, Oluwakemi; Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomena - 2016

Between 2000 and 2014, there was increasing mobility of migrant workers to Canada, especially through temporary … within the changing policy landscape in Canada, with a focus on individuals who migrate as domestic caregivers and as nurses … migrate to Canada as migrant caregivers. It finds that the Canadian government has restricted access to citizenship rights for …

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Safety and labour conditions : the accord and the national tripartite plan of action for the garment industry of Bangladesh

Khan, Mohd Raisul Islam; Wichterich, Christa - 2015

The factory fire at Tazreen Fashions in 2012 and the collapse of the Rana Plaza in 2013 generated a huge outcry about the working conditions and labour relations in the Readymade Garment (RMG) industry in Bangladesh, and led to the adoption of the multi-stakeholder agreements Accord on Fire and...

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Occupational safety in a frictional labor market

Kerndler, Martin - 2022

This paper studies the provision of occupational safety when the labor market is subject to search frictions. While safety measures are costly for firms, they reduce workers' mortality. We show that the presence of search frictions decreases the socially optimal level of occupational safety...

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