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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - 2011

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …

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Regional market-based climate policy in North America: Efficient, effective, fair?

Rudolph, Sven; Kawakatsu, Takeshi; Lerch, Achim - 2013

appears to be deadlocked. The same is true for Canada, which has aligned its climate policy to the US. However, regional …

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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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Scholarship, the Law and Immigration Policy

DeVoretz, Don J. - 2016

The legal system has entered the immigration policy framework via class action suits which force immigrant receiving countries to address shortfalls in their immigration and citizenship ascension policies. This paper addresses the role of class action lawsuits in the Canadian context.

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Consumer's stated trust in the food industry and meat purchases

Drescher, Larissa S.; de Jonge, Janneke; Goddard, Ellen; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 4, pp. 507-517

Research indicates that consumers are particularly concerned about the safety of meat. More highly processed meat is perceived as more unsafe than fresh or natural meats, i.e., consumers trust processed meat less. This paper studies the relationship between perceived trust and day-to-day...

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Labour supply and income distribution effects of the working income tax benefit: A general equilibrium microsimulation analysis

Annabi, Nabil; Boudribila, Youssef; Harvey, Simon - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-33

distribution in Canada, using a general equilibrium microsimulation model. We also estimate labour supply and demand elasticities …

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NAFTA, Investiture and Redistribution. The Power Underpinnings of Trade and Investment Liberalization in Canada

Brennan, Jordan - 2012

Criticism of trade and investment liberalization (TAIL) in North America has drawn attention to weak economic performance, wage-profit redistribution, social dumping and fiscal pressure on government programs as evidence that the TAIL regime has failed to deliver on some of its key promises....

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Fiscal equalization schemes and subcentral government borrowing

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Martínez-López, Diego - 2016

Examining the cases of Canada, Germany, and Spain, the role played by fiscal equalization schemes in determining …

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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …

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The impact of Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on the Canadian economy

Mukhopadhyay, Kakali; Thomassin, Paul J. - In: Journal of Economic Structures 7 (2018) 5, pp. 1-29

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most comprehensive trade agreement in the world. The TPP will help deepen Canada … partners and across Americas. The TPP will eliminate tariffs on almost all of Canada's key exports and offer access to new … between Canada and other TPP Nations. The GTAP 9 Data Base with the reference year of 2011 is used for the study. Results show …

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