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The predominant perspective on perinatal family labour supply in the theoretical and empirical economics literature is that careers and children are simultaneous choices, so conditioning on the prenatal career ambitions of individuals, and particularly women, the event of a birth has little or...
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In this study we review the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Canadian labour market. We focus on changes in employment and aggregate hours worked between February 2020 and April 2020, while accounting for normal monthly changes in these indicators. We find that COVID-19 induced a...
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In this study we review the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Canadian labour market. We focus on changes in employment and aggregate hours worked between February 2020 and April 2020, while accounting for normal monthly changes in these indicators. We find that COVID-19 induced a...
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Popular media discussions of tax policies with regard to income splitting have focused on recent changes in the individual income tax for those with pension income and families with children. However, income splitting has been an important aspect of small business taxation for many years, even...
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This paper considers Value at Risk measures constructed under a discrete mixture of normal distribution on the innovations with time-varying volatility, or MN-GARCH, model. We adopt an approach based on the continuous empirical characteristic function to estimate the param eters of the model...
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Wage posting models of job search typically assume that firms can commit to paying workers the posted wage. This paper investigates the consequences of relaxing this assumption. Under "downward" commitment firms can commit only to paying at least their advertised wage. We show that wage posting...
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This paper develops an e±cient method for estimating the discrete mix- tures of normal family based on the continuous empirical characteristic function (CECF). An iterated estimation procedure based on the closed form objective distance function is proposed to improve the estimation effciency....
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