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The Changing Labor Market Position of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1994

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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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1989

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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Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

Milligan, Kevin - 2008

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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Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2008

Previous research has shown a strong connection between birth weight and future child outcomes. But this research has not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily because it predicts future health or through some other...

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Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

Currie, Janet - 2007

Although mental disorders are common among children, we know little about their long term effects on child outcomes. This paper examines U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), depression, conduct disorders, and other behavioral problems. Our...

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The Integration of Child Tax Credits and Welfare : Evidence from the National Child Benefit Program

Milligan, Kevin - 2004

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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Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation : The Case of ADHD

Currie, Janet - 2004

One in five U.S. youngsters has a mental disorder, but we know little about the effects of these disorders on outcomes. We examine U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most common child mental health problem. Our innovations include the...

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Estimating Price Elasticities When there is Smuggling : The Sensitivity of Smoking to Price in Canada

Gruber, Jonathan - 2002

legal sales data. An excellent example is Canada, where widespread smuggling in the early 1990s, in response to large tax …

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Household Responses to Public Home Care Programs

Coyte, Peter C. - 2001

A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of publicly and privately financed home care services is proposed. Predictions concerning the effect of increased availability of publicly financed home care services on home care...

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What do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?

Baker, Michael - 2001

Survey reports of the incidence of chronic conditions are considered by many researchers to be more objective, and thus preferable, measures of unobserved health status than self-assessed measures of global well being. The former are 1) responses to specific questions about different ailments,...

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