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varies across comparison countries, relative to all comparison countries the US has similar neonatal (<1 month) mortality but …
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During World War II the United States rapidly transformed its economy to cope with a wide range of scarcities, such as shortfalls in the amounts of ocean shipping, aluminum, rubber, and other raw materials needed for the war effort. This paper explores the mobilization to see whether it provides...
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Western countries. This paper compares mortality inequality in Canada and the U.S. over the period 1990/91 through 2010/11. In … Canada, mortality inequality remained constant among the youngest, but increased for men over 24 and for women over 14. In …
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in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the ‘push' from weak labor markets versus the … the growth path observed in Canada …
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The past 25 years has seen substantial change in the social safety nets for families with children in the US and Canada … declined in both countries with more of the decline coming through market income in the U.S. and benefit income in Canada …
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We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …
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We compare patterns of unemployment and joblessness between Canada and the U.S. during the Great Recession. Similar to … previous findings for the U.S. in Kroft et al. [2016], we document a rise in long-term unemployment in Canada. This increase is … the extended matching model, we create a new historical vacancy series for Canada based on relative employment in …
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We examine local labor markets in the U.S. and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data …. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage … similarly, although in Canada they attract immigrant and highly-skilled workers more, while raising housing costs less. Chinese …
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.K., and Canada. Our main motivation is to see whether unionization can account for differences and trends in wage inequality … in industrialized countries. We focus on the U.S., the U.K., and Canada because the institutional arrangements governing …-union sectors that can be used as a comparison group for the union sector. Using comparable micro data for the last two decades, we …
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, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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