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Associate Professor of Economics and International Development at McGill. Firms, labor, and industrial development. Co-Founder and Co-Director of http://mont2-econlab.com. Father of two 🇮🇹🇨🇦 girls. Personal: https://sites.google.com/site/fscoamodio
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Follow-up:
www.ft.com/content/1201...
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Alexey Makarin and coauthors have a new great paper on sanctions on Russia. I have one on Israeli security-motivated trade restrictions and their impact on firms and workers in the West Bank.
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A typical North American vehicle crosses the border 7-8 times during production. Parts zigzag between countries before final assembly. 3/
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Got it. I guess we need to see college premium by gender. My understanding is that it has been going down overall, but don't know about the gender split.
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But that job pays now 25% less than 40 years ago in real terms. That is the puzzle, isn't it?
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Curious to see how the HydroQuebec-NY state deal will play out now, if there were tariff-related clauses, etc.
about.bnef.com/blog/hydro-q....
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Create the most thriving environment possible for the tech and digital industry and their workers: relocation packages, tax breaks, etc. That is, steal the source of US productivity advantage and tackle our productivity problem at the same time.
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Energy is the largest contributor to Canada-US bilateral trade, equal to 22% of trade in goods or $171B, ahead of autos, steel and aluminum.
Canada also has some of the critical minerals required for manufacturing electric vehicles batteries, like nickel and cobalt.
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More from the same source: In 2021, Canada supplied
25% of total US crude oil demand – more than all OPEC members combined – and 9% of US natural gas demand.
Canada exports enough electricity to power more than 5,600,000 US homes.