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Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …
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skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …
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United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …
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We examine the incentive effects of transfer programs using a unique policy episode. Prior to 1989, social assistance recipients without children in Quebec who were under age 30 received benefits 60 percent lower than recipients older than 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to...
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.K., and Canada. Our main motivation is to see whether unionization can account for differences and trends in wage inequality … in industrialized countries. We focus on the U.S., the U.K., and Canada because the institutional arrangements governing …
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This paper presents results from a 1971 natural experiment carried out by the Canadian government on the unemployment insurance system. At that time, they dramatically increased the generosity of the system. We find that the propensity to collect UI increases with a first time exposure to the...
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subsidy program on educational attainment and earnings. Like the United States, Canada set up an extensive veteran …
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We use comparable micro data sets for the U.S. and Canada to study the responses of young workers to the external labor … enrollment, and changes in work effort. In particular, we find that poor labor market conditions in Canada explain why the … fraction of youth living with their parents has increased in Canada relative to the U.S. recently. Paradoxically, this move …
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, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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employment in the presence of foreign competition shocks. We exploit the fact that in a small open economy such as Canada the …
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