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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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. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of the components of the flow of …/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides independent estimates form establishment or … system, as an example of the European system, best meets the standard for international comparison purposes …
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income gradient in self-reported health in the US and Canada. We find that being below median income raises the likelihood … percentage points in Canada. We also find that the 7 percentage point gradient difference between the two countries is reduced by … larger in the US than in Canada before the age of 65, but about the same after 65. Our results are therefore consistent with …
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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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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 the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …
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What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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