#MedicareForAll @AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2020 presidential election, Canada, health insurance, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Time Canada ALMOST Split Into Two (Possibly Three)
08 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, economic history, International law, Public Choice Tags: Canada, economics of succession
Stephen Williamson on Canada as an anomaly for conventional and Minsky theories of banking instability
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
The US-Canada Border Splits This Road Down The Middle
24 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, international economics, International law, politics - USA Tags: Canada, economics of borders, maps
Unlike NZ, Canada can’t blame size, distance nor remoteness for low productivity
02 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, macroeconomics Tags: Canada, lost decades, New Zealand
Fleeing Saudi blasphemy law. Finding Canadian blasphemy law.
13 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of religion Tags: Canada, free speech, Freedom of religion
Animated History of Canada – Territorial Evolution
23 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Canada, maps
Why is Canada not part of the United States?
14 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: Canada
Average duration of US, Canadian and Australian unemployment since 1968
12 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in business cycles, job search and matching, labour economics, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Australia, Canada, long-term unemployment, social insurance, unemployment duration
College and post-graduate wage premium in the English speaking countries, France, S. Korea, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden
31 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, College premium, Denmark, education premium, Finland, France, graduate premium, Ireland, Korea, Norway, post-graduate premium, Sweden
Source: Education at a Glance 2015, section 6.
Tertiary educational attainment, 2000 and 2014, USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia
24 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, tertiary educational attainment.
The British, Australians, and Italians experienced strong growth in tertiary attainment since the year 2000. In the case of the Italians, it was from a low base. There is still a big difference in tertiary attainment between English-speaking and other countries.
Source: OECD Factbook 2015-2016.
Equilibrium unemployment rate: USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada & Australia, 1985-2017
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, labour economics, labour supply, unemployment Tags: British economy, Canada, equilibrium unemployment rate, France, Germany, natural unemployment rate
I do admire the way in which the USA has been able to have a steadily falling equilibrium unemployment rate since 1984 through thick and thin. The Great Recession had no impact on the US equilibrium unemployment rate. Not only has the largest member been able to do this, the OECD host country (red squares) has had a pretty steady natural unemployment rate too all things considered.
Source: OECD Economic Outlook June 2016 Data extracted on 01 Jun 2016 12:40 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
Gap in GDP per Australian, Canadian, French, German, Japanese, New Zealander and British hour worked with the USA
28 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Eurosclerosis, France, Germany, Japan, labour productivity, measurement error, taxation and labour supply
This data tells more of a story than I expected. Firstly, New Zealand has not been catching up with the USA. Japan stopped catching up with the USA in 1990. Canada has been drifting away from the USA for a good 30 years now in labour productivity.
Data extracted on 28 May 2016 05:15 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat from OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2016 – en – OECD.
Australia has not been catching up with the USA much at all since 1970. It has maintained a pretty consistent gap with New Zealand despite all the talk of a resource boom in the Australia; you cannot spot it in this date are here.
Germany and France caught up pretty much with the USA by 1990. Oddly, Eurosclerosis applied from then on terms of growth in income per capita.
European labour productivity data is hard to assess because their high taxes lead to a smaller services sector where the services can be do-it-yourself. This pumps up European labour productivity because of smaller sectors with low productivity growth.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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