Le present document de recherche revele que les antecedents familiaux (niveau de scolarite des parents, type de famille, ethnicite, lieu de residence) exercent des effets importants, directs et indirects, sur la participation aux etudes postsecondaires. Les effets indirects des antecedents...

Par le passe, les familles d'immigrants en age de travailler dans les grandes agglomerations urbaines du Canada presentaient des taux de propriete de l'habitation superieurs a ceux de la population de souche. Ces 20 dernieres annees cependant, l'avantage est passe a la population de souche a...

Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...

In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher homeownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past twenty years however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of homeownership among the...

This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background. It uses the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.

This research finds that family background (parental education level, family type, ethnicity, location) has important direct and indirect effects on post-secondary participation. The indirect effects of background operate through a set of intermediate variables representing high school outcomes...