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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada …
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most plausible explanation for the effect in Canada, a small developed country, is that more intense competition in export …
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Using the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey and controlling for individual and establishment fixed-effects, we find that within a year of adopting a computer, the average worker earns a 3.6 percent higher wage than a worker who never used a computer. Returns are even larger for managers and...
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Do exporters and foreign-controlled establishments pay their workers higher wages than non-exporters and domestic … foreign-controlled plants do pay higher wages than non-exporters and domestic-controlled plants. These results hold even after … the impact of foreign control on wages is found to be widespread across industries and regions, that of exporting is not …
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employment consequences of NHI in Canada, using the fact that NHI was introduced on a staggered basis across the Canadian … provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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By reporting his satisfaction with his job or any other experience, an individual does not communicate the number of utils that he felt. Instead, he expresses his posterior preference over available alternatives conditional on acquired knowledge of the past. This new interpretation of reported...
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This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of … well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are discussed. The advantages of Canada's equal share rule of the allocation …
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This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of … well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are discussed. The advantages of Canada's equal share rule of the allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313952