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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466459
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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466440
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703390
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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age-earnings profiles, versus changes in relative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822111
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703360
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506080
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529141
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Mehr und bessere Daten für die Arbeitsmarktforschung: Vorschläge zur effizienten Erschließung der amtlichen Statistik
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die ökonomische Beurteilung von Vorgängen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erfordert eine solide und aussagekräftige Datengrundlage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615420
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
structural reallocation of labour. We also show that job formation and increases in unskilled wages were related to reductions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884152