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Fall 2017
The thesis is composed of two parts including three chapters. The first two chapters study the wage gap between immigrants and natives in Canada as well as wage structure of immigrants and natives. The third chapter is on the subject of the bank loan-deposit spreads and business cycles. The...
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Fall 2013
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 tests the hypothesis that income shocks cause bankruptcy. Using a difference-in-difference specification, we exploit an exogenous fiscal payment, paid to Albertans, and find that this payment causes a decrease in bankruptcies, as predicted by the...
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Fall 2015
This dissertation is composed of three essays that focus on trade’s impacts on inequality. The first essay is an empirical analysis of trade and trade partner inequality, in the context of gravity, covering 128 exporters and 126 importers for years 1982-2000. It reveals import share’s negative...
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2020-09-21
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Adopting a community-based participatory research approach, this project will use a comparative case study methodology to examine how an inclusive economy approach is being used to inform economic development in Edmonton (urban) and Drayton Valley (rural). This will be...
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How Can an Oppressed Social Group Gain the Right to Participate in a Field : An Investigation of First Nations in the Canadian Gambling Field
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Prior research on organizational fields has suggested that the arrival of new actors is an important exogenous source of field change, as it can trigger the transformation of field boundaries, governance, and the distribution of power and interests. However, a majority of studies tend to focus on...
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2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Consumption (purchases) is considered one of the best metrics of individual and household well-being. Economists typically assume households elect to smooth their consumption, so as to insure against shocks such as disability or unemployment. The current state-of-the-art...
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2019-10-11
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: The Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS) aims to reinvigorate the study of economic inequality and class stratification in Canada -- a vital undertaking in light of ongoing economic and social change --through a large-scale mixed-methods project. Does social class function as...
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Where Goes the Housing Ladder? Residential Mobility and Housing Tenure Outcomes Among Canadian Households
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Canada has a highly tenure-discriminatory housing system where ownership has been privileged and supported in policy while renting has been discouraged and disinvested, contributing to widening social and economic inequality based on housing tenure. Residential mobility, or moving homes, is a key...