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Browsing Major Research Projects by Thesis (Discipline) "Economics"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)The proliferation of ebooks and ebook readers is causing a digital disruption in the publishing industry as consumers alter their reading and purchasing behaviours. This research paper attempts to determine if those same ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)The purpose of this study is to analyze the pollution-housing price relationship within a Canadian context, with a special focus on the effects of particular matter 2.5 (PM[subscript 2.5]) in terms of air pollution. The ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)The quality of human capital is essential for a nation to grow and keep up with the growing pace of development and innovation. Education is being recognized as a key contributing factor to the sustainable growth of a ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This paper studies the effects of a minimum wage increase on the employment rates of immigrants and non-immigrants in Canada's Atlantic region, particularly those with high school or more education. In estimating the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Youth unemployment rates have increased greatly after the 1990-1992 recession and even more so after the 2007-2008 financial crisis. With youth education levels increasing, there is a strong reason to study why youth in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Although the number of immigrants coming to Canada has been steady in the past two decades, their location distribution is uneven across provinces. The proportion of immigrants in each province varies from 29 percent ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The purpose of this study is to analyze the impacts of education and post schooling labour market experience on wage differential between immigrants and non-immigrants in Canada, with particular focus on those who have ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)The yield curve or the term structure of the interest has been one of the key leading macroeconomic indicators and forecasting the yield curve could provide vital information about future macroeconomic performance. Following ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This study investigates the causal relationship between political stability, foreign direct investment and remittance inflows in Bangladesh. To examine this causal nexus, we use political stability and absence of violence ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)The 1997 Quebec childcare policy is the first and only universal childcare program to be introduced in Canada. By using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth from Statistics Canada, this ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Canada is a country with many immigrants, its advantages attract many immigrants. Immigration brings a lot of benefits but also has some impact on local residents. Let's say the house price. The increase in immigration is ...
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