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The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2011

Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we … document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of … actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of current workers to create a longer perspective on changes in …

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Patterns of Retirement as Reflected in Income Tax Records for Older Workers

Denton, Frank T.; Finnie, Ross; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

If retirement means a substantial and sustained reduction in the time spent working for pay or profit, measurement … retirement is about 63 for men, 62 for women. That is true for all cohorts. If earning up to half of one’s previous employment …

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Patterns of Retirement as Reflected in Income Tax Records for Older Workers

Denton, Frank T.; Finnie, Ross; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

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The surprisingly large policy implications of changing retirement durations

Hicks, Peter - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2011

work strongly in the direction of even shorter durations of retirement and longer durations of work. These new pressures … retirement years in large numbers, increasing the demand for older workers. On the supply side, there will be a large in increase … market scenarios. Delaying work-retirement transitions by even this amount would have large, positive economic and fiscal …

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Merit-Aid and the Distribution of Entering Students Across Ontario Universities

Dooley, Martin D.; Payne, A. Abigail; Robb, A. Leslie - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

Tuition levels at Ontario universities have risen along with the value of merit-based entry scholarships provided by the nineteen institutions in this relatively closed system. We use data on entering students from 1994 through 2005 and find that merit awards have at most a small effect on a...

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The Impact of ESL Funding Restrictions on Student Academic Achievement

Dooley, Martin; Furtado, Cesar - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

ESL instruction is an important issue in Canada due to the large number of immigrants and has potentially impacts on both student academic progress and educational expenditures. In 1999, the province of British Columbia limited funding for ESL to five years per student but increased the annual...

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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians

Au, Doreen Wing Han; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2005

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible problems with self-reported health, including endogeneity and measurement error, and (2) the...

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Older Workers and On-the-Job Training in Canada: Evidence from the WES Data

Zeytinoglu, I.U.; Cooke, G.B.; Harry, K. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

This paper provides evidence of on-the-job training among older workers in Canada. It also examines the effect of age associated with on-the-job training. Statistics Canada’s Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) 2001 data, linking employee responses to workplace (i.e. employer) responses are...

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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians

Au, Doreen Wing Han; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2004

Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self- reported health, particularly "justification bias", and (2) the...

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Understanding the Outcomes of Older Job Losers

Brzozowski, Matthew; Crossley, Thomas F. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

We use an unusually rich Canadian survey to examine how post-job-loss behaviour and outcomes vary with age of the job loser. We find that older job losers experience greater postdisplacement joblessness, and are less likely to return quickly to satisfactory employment. We show that this apparent...

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