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Unemployment Compensation and Adjustment Assistance for Displaced Workers: Policy Options for Canada
Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
This paper examines the role of EI in providing support to “displaced workers,†those who permanently lose their jobs because of changing circumstances. Adjusting to change benefits Canadians as a whole. However, some workers suffer much more from job loss than do others. Those who...
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Economic Change and Worker Displacement in Canada: Consequences and Policy Responses
Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Change is an enduring feature of the economy and the labour market, even in normal times. The importance of adjusting to change, and of policies that promote adjustment, has been a recurring theme throughout David Dodge’s distinguished career. This paper deals with “displaced...
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Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence
Kroft, Kory; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
We study how optimal unemployment insurance (UI) benefits vary over the business cycle by estimating how the moral hazard cost and the consumption smoothing benefit of UI vary with the unemployment rate. We find that the moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is...
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Labour Market Matters - April 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Examples of educational mismatch and overqualifcation in the labour market can often be found in the same office building – the clerical worker with a bachelor’s degree reporting to a manager with a high school education – as an example. Some have argued that mismatch in...
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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
immigrants (the 2nd generation) in Canada and the United States. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the 2 … significantly above their counterparts with domestic born parents in Canada. In the U.S., educational levels are roughly the same … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509637
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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511757
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The Persistence Behaviour of Registered Apprentices: Who Continues, Quits, or Completes Programs?
Laporte, Christine; Mueller, Richard - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We utilize a multinomial probit model and the 2007 National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) to investigate the persistence behaviour of individuals enrolled in apprenticeship programs. These behaviours include continuing, discontinuing (or quitting) and completing programs. The NAS contains detailed...
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Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrants over the Past Quarter Century: the Roles of Changing Characteristics and Returns to Skills
Hou, Feng - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We examine whether the factors associated with the rise in the Canadian born - immigrant entry earnings gap played different roles in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early 2000s. We find that for recent immigrant men, shifts in population characteristics had the most important effect in the 1980s...
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Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship
Meredith, John - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
and research in Canada, with greater attention to the diversity of actors’ strategic interactions with the training …
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Working In a Regulated Occupation in Canada: An Immigrant - Native-Born Comparison
Girard, Magali; Smith, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
study is that we use Statistics Canada data to classify occupations, across provinces, into regulated and unregulated …
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