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The Determinants of Education-Job Match among Canadian University Graduates
Boudarbat, Brahim; Chernoff, Victor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This study uses data from the Follow-up of Graduates Survey – Class of 2000, to look at the determinants of education-job match among Canadian university graduates. From a public policy perspective, the question of education-job match is relevant given the substantial investment society puts...
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What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?
de Grip, Andries; Fouarge, Didier; Sauermann, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969329
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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of graduates of all Swiss universities for the period of 1981-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703659
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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
Boudarbat, Brahim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822467
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … of time in Canada on earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822761
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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Canada’s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822921
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The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991
Kuhn, Peter; Riddell, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using data spanning a half century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822992
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Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?
Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …
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Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Kralj, Boris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
physicians in Ontario, Canada. Using a panel of administrative data that covers one year before and two years after the FHO model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149143
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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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