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State Dependence in Canadian Welfare Participation

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zhang, Xuelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model … differences in social assistance participation. The empirical results indicate that a “welfare trap” does exist in Canada, but the …

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Testing for Poverty Dominance: An Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Choice of Fields of Study of Canadian University Graduates: The Role of Gender and their Parents’ Education

Boudarbat, Brahim; Montmarquette, Claude - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of the choice of field of study by university students using data from the Canadian National Graduate Survey. The sample of 18,708 graduates holding a Bachelor degree is interesting in itself knowing that these students completed their study and thus...

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An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of the Self-Sufficiency Project on the Employment Behaviour of Former Welfare Recipients

Zabel, Jeffrey; Schwartz, Saul; Donald, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) was a Canadian research and demonstration project that attempted to "make work pay" for long-term income assistance (IA) recipients by supplementing their earnings. The long-term goal of SSP was to get lone parents permanently off IA and into the paid labour...

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The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain

Drolet, Marie; Mumford, Karen A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

considerably higher in Britain than in Canada. The results are consistent with a prima facie argument that country-specific factors …

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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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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

estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax …

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