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For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with …
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The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) provides a unique window on the effects of trade liberalization. It was an …
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The contracting practices of franchisors outside of theirdomestic markets have received limited attention in the empirical literature on franchising, mostly due to data limitations. We exploit a newly assembled data set that allows us not only to describe the contracting practices of US and...
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Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the … fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found that for the U.S. a simple supply-demand model fit the pattern of ….S. and Canada. In both instances, the relative demand for more-educated labor shifts out at the same, consistent rate. Both …
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Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …
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countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
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The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the … seven adjectives, a feature more prevalent in the United States than in Canada, (black, white, Hispanic and Asian in the … United States; French, English and Ethnic in Canada) have lower levels of trust than those who consider themselves Canadians …
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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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This paper estimates the effects of intranational and international R&D spillovers on the cost and production structure for ten Canadian and Japanese manufacturing industries. Domestic spillovers generate greater effects on average variable cost and factor intensities compared to international...
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