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Literacy and the labour market : cognitive skills and immigrant earnings
Bonikowska, Aneta (contributor); Green, David A. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003740899
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The evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada, 1980 - 2006
Boudarbat, Brahim (contributor); Lemieux, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003768881
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Theevolution of the returns to human capital in Canada, 1980 - 2005
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that … between our results and earlier findings. -- Human capital ; wage differentials ; Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942232
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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies : experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the self-sufficiency project
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2012
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532041
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The role of education in technology use and adoption : evidence from the Canadian workplace and employee survey
Riddell, William Craig; Song, Xueda - 2012
Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532058
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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
Green, David A.; Riddell, William Craig - 2012
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a … part of the skill distribution where falling skills are most evident. In Canada the cross-cohort declines are especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533968
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Top incomes in Canada : evidence from the Census
Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2015
This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian … groups driving the growth in top incomes in Canada. A finding more specific to Canada is that the oil and gas sector has also … revolution, scientists, engineers and even computer scientists do not account for much of the growth in top incomes in Canada. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528875
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Education, job search and re-employment outcomes among the unemployed
Riddell, William Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011
This study assesses the effects of education on both job search intensity and re-employment success for unemployed workers. Given that the positive correlation between education and job search intensity or re-employment success is likely to be confounded by the endogeneity of education, we make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521217
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Changing patterns of unionization : the North American experience, 1984 - 1998
Riddell, Chris (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001699813
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Education and skills : an assessment of recent Canadian experience
Riddell, William Craig (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001699983