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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …
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days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
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voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered … times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal …
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We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation … are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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rate (LFPR) series of Australia, Canada and the USA. Therefore we allow for endogenously determined multiple structural … previous research the LFPRs of Australia, Canada and the USA are stationary implying that the informational value of the …
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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in …
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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …
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