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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada

Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …

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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …

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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment …

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Labour Supply and Taxes: New Estimates of the Responses of Wives to Husbands' Wages

Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...

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The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …

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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition

DeVoretz, Don; Werner, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …

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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …

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