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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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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Rickman, Dan S.; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265301
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884279
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959587
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210815
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268878
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653981
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323408
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703356
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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