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Universality is a hallmark of Canadian social policy for very young children. The evidence base for these policies is small, non-experimental and offers mixed results. In contrast the evidence base for targeted early childhood interventions is largely experimental and offers strong guidance....
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. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure …
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to Canada since the 1990s, has not led to a large improvement in immigrant earnings as may have been expected given the …
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The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of … education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided with cross cohort declines in cognitive … immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was …
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We utilize the 2006 Census -- the first large-scale, representative Canadian data set to include information on apprenticeship certification -- to compare the returns from apprenticeships with those from other educational pathways (high school graduation, non-apprenticeship trades and community...
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of education between immigrants and their children. On average, the children of immigrants have educational levels … residence, the children of immigrants outperform the 3rd-and-higher generation in educational attainment. Parental education and … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …
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analysis indicates that dropouts have poorer wage and employment outcomes, and they do not make up for their lack of education …
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post-migration education on new immigrants’ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status … professional or managerial occupation prior to migration are most likely to enroll in Canadian education. But, acceptance of … previous work experience by Canadian employers lowers the likelihood of enrolling in further education. Financial capital was …
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There has been growing interest in using specific genetic markers as instrumental variables in attempts to assess causal relationships between health status and socioeconomic outcomes, including human capital accumulation. In this paper we use a combination of family fixed effects and genetic...
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This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
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