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Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Issue: We investigate the assumption found in code and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature that suggests codes are primarily associated with the CSR practices of an organization. Research Findings/Results: A web-based study of 150 corporations...
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as well as the level and volatility of auto insurance loss ratios in Canada. We find that rate reduction orders, product …
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This paper illustrates how occasionally binding credit constraints can be quantitatively important to delivering business-cycle asymmetries. An empirical exercise suggests that countries display some business-cycles asymmetries, and an open-economy real business-cycle model is assessed where an...
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of competition in several countries, including Canada. In this paper, we find that the OECD substantially overestimated … the intensity of competition in Canadian industries by systematically underestimating Canada’s HHI by more than 450 times …
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Newly certified unions often experience difficulty negotiating a first agreement. To remedy this, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) proposes that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) provide for first contract arbitration. Using a panel of Canadian jurisdictions that have introduced FCA...
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This article explores the attitudes of lesbian mothers towards same-sex marriage, focusing in particular on how they perceive the relationship between marriage and children's best interests. The article draws on 36 semi-structured interviews with lesbian mothers living in British Columbia and...
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explores the ways in which race may structure attitudes about welfare elsewhere. In the Canadian context, our results suggest … another racial minority. As we have seen in the US, then, support for welfare is related to perceptions about the race of the …
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Current cost-based approach in measuring health care output does not allow decomposition of health care expenditure into price and output components. In this paper we propose an episode-based direction measurement method which closely resembles the concept of output in the system of national...
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played a key role in the formulation of monetary policy in many countries, including the United States and Canada. However … formally. This paper examines the latest aggregate labour productivity data for Canada using a new testing approach … tends to lag the structural change. Evidence of a decline in the trend rate of labour productivity growth in Canada since …
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study of business responses to climate change regulation in Canada and Germany, both signatories to the Kyoto Protocol. Both …
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