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The Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education: A Comparison of First Nations, African, Asian and European Canadian Youth
Thiessen, Victor - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using the nationally representative longitudinal Youth in Transition Survey, this paper examines the argument that inferior educational outcomes of various visible minorities and immigrants can be attributed to their socio-economic disadvantages, while superior outcomes of other visible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990866
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The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Kim, Dongwoo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting databases, school report cards, and the Common Core of Data. We examine schools’ test scores, enrollment, and number of teachers, as well as graduation, attendance, and suspension rates at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184408
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Labour Market Matters - August 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
be lasting and damaging. Extremely violent incidents could be a distraction from learning, and fear and the perception of … an unsafe learning environment could impede students from being open to new opportunities that are essential to learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184437
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Marché du travail en revue - Août 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
La population du Canada vieillit depuis plusieurs décennies. En 1976, l’âge moyen des hommes n’était que de 27,2 ans, alors qu’il atteint 39,4 ans en 2013. La tendance reflète à la fois une augmentation de l’espérance de vie des Canadiens à leur naissance, mais aussi l’impact du...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184443
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A Typology of Adult Learning: Review of the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation of Canada’s Model
Elfert, Maren; Rubenson, Kjell - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Recent development of adult learning typologies stems from the policy community’s interest in collecting information … on learning activities of populations in order to understand the economic and social benefits of learning and to …, the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation’s (SRDC’s) Adult Learning Typology (Myers, Conte & Rubenson, 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184468
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A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350698
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Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth
Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, Chris - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395119
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Universal Early Childhood Interventions: What is the Evidence Base?
Baker, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363223
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The Economic Return on New Immigrants' Human Capital: the Impact of Occupational Matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using a data set that provides information on source country employment, we examine the effect of source and host country occupational matching on earnings and the economic rate of return to the foreign human capital of immigrants in Canada. Examining occupational distributions we find that...
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Ability, Parental Valuation of Education and the High School Dropout Decision
Foley, Kelly; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Green, David A. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We use a large, rich Canadian micro-level dataset to examine the channels through which family socio-economic status and unobservable characteristics affect children's decisions to drop out of high school. First, we document the strength of observable socio-economic factors: our data suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509636