Browsing by Author "Dilmaghani, Maryam"

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Does the place of education matter in reducing the difference in earnings between immigrants and native-born in Canada?

Hossain, Arman (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)

Using the 2016 Canadian Census, this paper examines whether the place of education matters in reducing the wage difference between immigrants and native-born Canadians. The Mincerian equation has been utilized to show the ...
The impact of gender and age on risk-taking attitudes

Sun, Weinan (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

This paper investigates the extent of gender difference in attitudes towards risk, and its persistence across age-cohorts. Pooled micro data based on Canadian Surveys of Household Spending, conducted annually from 1996 to ...
Medicaid expansion and the U.S. secular boom : the crowding out of religion's social insurance function

Hammond, Samuel (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)

Since 1990 the share of the U.S. population claiming no religion has more than doubled. This paper analyzes the causes of this “secular boom” using the conception of religious organizations as informal insurance providers. ...

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