| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
National Bureau of Economic Research--Comparative Labor Markets Series |
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NBER Comparative labor markets series.
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| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; 1. Immigration Policy, National Origin, and Immigrant Skills: A Comparison of Canada and the United States; 2. Skill Differentials in Canada in an Era of Rising Labor Market Inequality; 3. Unions and Wage Inequality in Canada and the United States; 4. Unionization in Canada and the United States: A Tale of Two Countries; 5. A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in Canada and the United States; 6. Responding to Need: A Comparison of Social Safety Nets in Canada and the United States |
| Summary |
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 1980s. 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 1980s.-Canada saw a smaller increase in earnings |
| Analysis |
income maintenance, labor, markets, immigration, unemployment compensation, unionization, unions, canada, united states, social safety net, poverty, government, nonfiction, economics, earnings inequality, need, households, skill differentials, immigrant skills, international, economy, national identity, leisure, happiness, justice, ubi, wealth gap, mobility, success |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Income maintenance programs -- Canada
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Income maintenance programs -- United States
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Labor market -- Canada
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Labor market -- United States
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Income maintenance programs
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Labor market
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Canada
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freeman, Richard
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| ISBN |
9780226092898 |
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0226092895 |
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