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Immigration, poverty, and socioeconomic inequality
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ISBN: 0871548100 1610448154 9781610448048 1610448049 9781610448154 9780871544988 0871544989 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York

Small differences that matter
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ISBN: 0226092836 9786612004780 1282004786 0226092895 9780226092898 9780226092836 Year: 1993 Volume: *1 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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This volume, the first in a new series by the National Bureau of Economic Research that compares labor markets in different countries, examines social and labor market policies in Canada and the United States during the 1980's. It shows that subtle differences in unemployment compensation, unionization, immigration policies, and income maintenance programs have significantly affected economic outcomes in the two countries. For example: -Canada's social safety net, more generous than the American one, produced markedly lower poverty rates in the 1980's. -Canada saw a smaller increase in earnings inequality than the United States did, in part because of the strength of Canadian unions, which have twice the participation that U.S. unions do. -Canada's unemployment figures were much higher than those in the United States, not because the Canadian economy failed to create jobs but because a higher percentage of nonworking time was reported as unemployment. These disparities have become noteworthy as policy makers cite the experiences of the other country to support or oppose particular initiatives.

Seeking a premier economy
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ISBN: 0226092844 9786611223205 1281223204 0226092909 9780226092904 9780226092843 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In the 1980's and 1990's successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the world, marked by transformed welfare and industrial relations systems and broad privatization. Virtually every industry and government program has been affected by the reforms, from hospitals and schools to labor unions and jobless benefit programs. Seeking a Premier Economy focuses on the labor and product market reforms that directly impacted productivity, employment, and inequality. The questions asked are provocative: How did the United Kingdom manage to stave off falling earnings for lower paid workers? What role did the reforms play in rising income inequality and trends in poverty? At the same time, what reforms also contributed to reduced unemployment and the accelerated growth of real wages? The comparative microeconomic approach of this book yields the most credible evaluation possible, focusing on closely associated outcomes of particular reforms for individuals, firms, and sectors.


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Distribution of income and wealth in Ontario
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ISBN: 1442656697 1442633387 0802033695 9781442656697 9781442633384 9780802033697 Year: 1981 Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] Published for the Ontario Economic Council by University of Toronto Press

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This book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being.

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