(Vancouver) The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid Corporation's claims that hosting the Winter Games will generate an employment boom are wildly exaggerated and not born out by the experience of previous host cities.
David Green, a Professor of Economics at UBC and CCPA research associate, is the author of a brief released today that takes an in-depth look at the employment estimates put...
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