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Bank of Canada RSS Feedsen2024-03-28T15:39:14+00:00The Size and Characteristics of Informal (“Gig”) Work in Canada
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Underlying wage growth has fallen short of what would be consistent with an economy operating with little or no slack. While many factors could explain this weakness, the availability of additional labour resources from informal (“gig”) work—not fully captured in standard measures of employment and hours worked—may play a role.2019-02-21T15:25:45+00:00enThe Size and Characteristics of Informal (“Gig”) Work in Canada2019-02-21Inequality in Parental Transfers, Borrowing Constraints and Optimal Higher Education Subsidies
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This paper studies optimal education subsidies when parental transfers are unequally distributed across students and cannot be publicly observed. After documenting substantial inequality in parental transfers among US college students with similar family resources, I examine its implications for how the education subsidy should vary with schooling level and family resources to minimize inefficiencies generated by borrowing constraints.2019-02-11T14:03:49+00:00enInequality in Parental Transfers, Borrowing Constraints and Optimal Higher Education Subsidies2019-02-11Fiscal policyPotential outputProductivityStaff Working Paper 2019-7https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/swp2019-7.pdfInequality in Parental Transfers, Borrowing Constraints and Optimal Higher Education SubsidiesYoungmin ParkFebruary 2019DD1D14D6D61D64D8D82II2I22JJ2J24