as they change jobs, voluntarily or involuntarily. The model, calibrated to the United States and Canada, accounts for … one-third of the firmsize wage premium. Regarding the earnings gap between Canada and the United States, the model finds …

study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …

) in Canada. GDP growth is decomposed into contributions from physical capital, hours worked, human capital supplied per … hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …

the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches … case of IMGs migrating to the US and Canada since the 1960s and evaluate the empirical predictions from the model based on … an analysis of the occupational outcomes of IMGs in Canada (where a point system has been in place) and in the US (where …