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La presente etude vise a evaluer les effets des competences en litteratie et en numeratie sur les resultats sur le marche du travail des decrocheurs du secondaire au Canada. Nous avons determine que ces competences ont des repercussions significatives sur la probabilite d'etre occupe, ainsi que...
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minority-white income differences and the role cognitive skills play in those patterns. Some minority groups have substantially … the case of certain male groups, these differences play a significant role in explaining the observed income patterns. The … ethnic-white income gaps are, however, much smaller for women, and the literacy and numeracy variables do not have much of a …
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This study assesses the effects of literacy and numeracy skills on the labour market outcomes of Canadian high school drop-outs. We find that these skills have significant effects on the probability of being employed and on hours and weeks of work for both men and women, and also have strong...
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Nous presentons de nouveaux resultats concernant les niveaux et les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu apres impot au Canada au cours de la periode allant de 1980 a 2000. Nous soutenons que les sources de donnees existantes ne revelent pas necessairement les variations dans les queues de la...
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A partir des donnees de l'Enquete sur les capacites de lecture et d'ecriture utilisees quotidiennement (ECLEUQ) de Statistique Canada, nous avons etudie les differences de revenus entre les minorites et les Blancs et l'importance des capacites cognitives dans les modeles de revenus observes....
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We present new evidence on levels and trends in after-tax income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2000. We argue … that existing data sources may miss changes in the tails of the income distribution, and that much of the changes in the … income distribution have been in the tails. Our data are constructed from Census files, which are augmented with predicted …
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This study investigates trends in family income inequality in the 1980s and 1990s, with particular attention paid to …
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Dans cette etude, on examine les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu familial durant les annees 1980 et 1990, en accordant une attention particuliere a la periode de reprise economique des annees 1990.
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