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In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
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We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …
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Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment … to the estimation of difference-in-differences matching models of the effect of employer supported course enrolment on …
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estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax …
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retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …
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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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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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by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
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Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …
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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...
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