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... Money A Average annual growth ofthe money supply in the past five years minus average annual growth of real GDP in the past ten years B Standard inflation variability in the past five years C ... available at http://www.freetheworld.com Data and other information are available at http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/ The similarity ofthe indices is made clear in Caudill, Zanella, and ... that some variables ofthe EFI build on survey data, which can be uncertain and arbitrary This quality is not necessarily a reason to exclude them because they may be better than no data at all...
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... compared to the average for the rest of Canada Immigrants in these cities had a wage gap of nearly $15,000 or more than 26%; in the rest of Canada, the gap was nearly $3,300 or 6% A similar story ... “International Credential Evaluation and the Labour Market Integration of Immigrants.” Canadian Issues, Spring 2007 Statistics Canada (2005) “Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada: A Portrait ... Given that immigrants tend to have a different profile of education and other relevant labour market characteristics than the Canadian born, we adjust our estimates to take account of these factors...
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... burdensome The availability of these kind of data naturally skews the balance of analysis towards participation rather than outcomes Participation in itself raises few problems of causality, other than ... pragmatic and technical reasons for concentrating on participation Estimating and analysing participation is far easier than assessing the effects of learning At a rather basic level, its meaning ... Green et al 2003) The capacity of human capital analysis has increased enormously over recent decades, with the accumulation of massive datasets and the development of sophisticated analytical techniques...
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