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A Spatial Exploration Of Institutional Investment In Canada For The Year 2010, Martin R. Lefebvre
A Spatial Exploration Of Institutional Investment In Canada For The Year 2010, Martin R. Lefebvre
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Using measures of central tendency, the average nonUS-based institutional investor has more capital invested in securities than his US-based counterpart. The present study shows that US-based investors favour manufacturing companies, whereas Canadian investors prefer companies based in natural resources. Nationally, Toronto acts more as the centre of gravity for Canadian institutional investors than New York City does for the United States. Comparatively, Toronto accounts for 70% of all Canadian investors while New York accounts for only 30% of the American total, despite it being the city with the most capital invested worldwide. Notwithstanding Alberta’s oil boom, inter-provincial investment capital show …
Role Of Search, Human Capital And Learning In Occupational Mobility And Immigrant Assimilation, Masashi Miyairi
Role Of Search, Human Capital And Learning In Occupational Mobility And Immigrant Assimilation, Masashi Miyairi
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis contains three studies of job and occupational mobility, and their implications for earnings. The second chapter of the thesis develops and estimates a model of job and occupational search to examine how and how much learning influences young workers' job search and transition patterns. The model incorporates uncertainty regarding the accumulation processes of workers' different skills, and features directed search whereby workers choose search effort intensities for different occupations. The model is estimated using U.S. data, with individuals' occupational affiliations grouped into skilled white-collar, skilled blue-collar, and non-skilled occupations. The estimates show large differences in search frictions, skill …
2014-1 Default And Repayment Among Baccalaureate Degree Earners, Lance J. Lochner, Alexander Monge-Naranjo
2014-1 Default And Repayment Among Baccalaureate Degree Earners, Lance J. Lochner, Alexander Monge-Naranjo
Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers
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