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wage rates and international trade finds 739 sources including

MINIMUM WAGE RATES AND PURE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Author(s)BRECHER, RA
Source: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 1974 Volume: 88 Issue: 1 Pages: 98-116
Cited by (10) within the database Econlit

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Web of Science
Above article cited 139 times, the most recent in 2012.

TARIFFS, FOREIGN CAPITAL AND IMMISERIZING GROWTH
Author(s) Brecher, RA, Diaz, Alejandro, CF
Source:
Q J ECON
7, Issue 4, November 1977, Pages 317-322
Cited by (6) in EconLit

Cited in Web of Science 154 time and in Scopus 93 times.

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Canada
Conference Board of Canada e-Library provides Canadian economic data and forecasting
CANSIM (Statistics Canada's main database) - available to Carleton students/faculty on two platforms:
CANSIM (Statistics Canada website)
CANSIM II @ CHASS (University of Toronto) - download in SPSS
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Minimum Wage Database
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United States

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute
Database of Global Economic Indicators
International House Price Database
Real-Time Historical Dataset for the OECD
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) and ALFRED (Archival FRED) vintage versions of economic data
Fed in Print - central catalogue of the US Federal Reserve System
Fedstats

Africa
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Asia

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Europe/Russia

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Portrait of the Regions
United Nations Economic Commission For Europe
Universal Database of Russian and CIS Statistics
Russia (U.S. Federal Reserve Bank System - FRED) - see also other countries

Latin America

Inter-American Development Bank
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International

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Websites

Data Library of Kenneth R. French - Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is an expert on the behavior of security prices and investment strategies.

American Economic Association Data & Resources

Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories for some or all of the years 1950-2010.

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