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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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. Standard explanations include poverty and a cultural emphasis on male offspring. We study Asian immigrants to Canada using …
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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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We find a steep earnings-longevity gradient using fifty years of administrative data from Canada, with men in the top ….6 years. Unlike the United States, this longevity gradient in Canada has shifted uniformly through time, with approximately …
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benefits in Canada to study these questions. Importantly, our approach allows us to make stronger causal inferences than has … findings suggest that child benefit programs in Canada had significant positive effects on test scores, as has been featured in …
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We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent between 48 and 58 percent more time not working in the first year of their children's lives. We find that this...
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The growing labor force participation of women with small children in both the U.S. and Canada has led to calls for …
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and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in Canada. The substantial variation in leave entitlements across mothers …
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In 1998, the Canadian government introduced a new child tax credit. The innovation in the program was its integration with social assistance (welfare). Some provinces agreed to subtract the new federally-paid benefits from provincially-paid social assistance, partially lowering the welfare wall....
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This paper documents the life-cycle patterns of household portfolios in Canada, and investigates several hypotheses …
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