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Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...

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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies between 1998 and 2004. We test four hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake...

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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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