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The paepr reviews different reasons for the emergence in the 1980s of an unemployment gap between Canada and the U.S. We develop a small equilibrium model ofthe Canadian labor market to quantify and evaluate these reasons. We conclude that the gap is essentially due to the liberalization of the...
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This paper sets out to explain the Canadian-US unemployment rate gap that has persisted since 1982. The gap, which appeared in two stages, has lasted through peaks and troughs in economic activity. We use a panel of five Canadian and nine US regions to search for the causes. The 1971...
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