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Despite a history built on immigration, immigrants are among those who struggle the most in Canada. Recent research … finds that the proportion of recent immigrants (in Canada for 5 years or less) who were in poverty has risen steadily from … immigrants in Canada often struggle in the labour market compared to both their native-born peers and their younger counterparts …
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and research in Canada, with greater attention to the diversity of actors’ strategic interactions with the training …
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Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an “added worker effect†for the earnings of teenagers. However, we find that among...
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model to data collected on specialist physicians working in the Province of Quebec (Canada). Our data set contains …
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Household production is an important non-market activity and the empirical literature has developed different methods towards valuing household production without, however, providing a rigorous theoretical foundation for the various approaches. We follow the literature spawned by Becker (1965)...
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The paper provides a generalization of Becker’s theory of the allocation of time. The paper assumes that household time plays three roles: as leisure, household work and household labour supply, with separate utility valuations for each use of time. The paper also considers the case where...
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payments help reduce this gap? In Canada, disability benefits are primarily provided by provincial governments. As each …
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I study the effect of a universal child-related income transfer on the labour supply of married individuals. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, I find the Canadian Universal Child Care Benefit has significant negative income effects. The likelihood of lower-educated mothers to...
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The incomes, hours of work and co-residency behavior of older immigrants in Canada are analyzed using data from the … confidential master files of the Canadian Census for the years 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006. Older immigrants in Canada have lower … mitigated to a certain extent through co-residency, presumably with their younger relatives already resident in Canada …
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retirement and the expected age of retirement in Canada. Changes between 1994 and 2002 are decomposed into a component …
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