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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Economics"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This study links findings from previous literature on (a) effects of family income and socioeconomic status (SES) and related family and community influences on child and youth development and mental health (b) child and ...
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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, 2016)Over the past couple of decades, rising oil prices have had a positive impact on the alternative energy industry because of the substitution effect. In a society that is growingly concerned about environmental sustainability, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This is the first study to use the crime-housing price relationship to attempt to measure the economic cost of crime within a Canadian context. The City of Vancouver, which is home to Canada’s hottest real estate market, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Voter turnout rates for Canadian federal elections have been in decline for over 50 years, and currently Canada is ranked 18th among OECD countries in this regard. To what extent do certain socioeconomic factors have in ...
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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, 2017)Nowadays, technology is a necessity for people because it serves a variety of functions in the modern society and has improved significantly the living standards compared to what they were 100 years ago. Although a lot of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)What role, if any, can financial technology adoption play in determining the capital structure and growth of financial markets? This thesis analyzes the dynamics of cross-country capital market development by examining ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This study examines the unemployment rates of Canadians comparing men and women, immigrants (any foreign-born Canadians) and native born Canadians to see if there are any groups that are more sensitive than their counterparts ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The aim of this study is to measure the impact that individuals’ health and human capital has on their Income. We also want to measure the impact on income when health and human capital are interacting together. Using the ...
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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)I analyze the impact of diagnosed mental health disorders and mental health services on peoples’ potential to work by using the Canadian Community Health Survey, 2012: Mental Health Component. I use mood and anxiety disorders ...
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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, 2019)This thesis addresses the effects of seventeen chronic health conditions as defined by the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey on labour market outcomes as measured by their labour force status: employed full-time, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)This thesis analyzes the levels of marine debris on the coastline of Southwest Nova Scotia and draws possible conclusions for the observed degree of pollution. The plentiful stocks of lobster, scallop, herring, and other ...
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