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Immigrant Earnings Growth: Selection Bias or Real Progress?
Picot, Garnett; Piraino, Patrizio - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We use longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records to estimate the earnings growth of immigrants from three entering cohorts since the early 1980s. Selective attrition by low-earning immigrants might result in lower earnings growth with years since migration in longitudinal data...
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Intergenerational Effects of Disability Benefits - Evidence from Canadian Social Assistance Programs
Chen, Kelly; Osberg, Lars; Phipps, Shelley - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Using Statistics Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), this paper presents the first evidence on whether increased disability benefits reduce the negative consequences of parental disability on children’s well-being. Using a continuous...
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Labour Market Matters - December 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) represents one of the largest transfer programs administered by the Canadian government, representing 4.5 percent of federal transfers to individuals. The UCCB – which provides $100 monthly to parents for every child under six years of age –...
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Marché du travail en revue - Septembre 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Septembre 2012 : Marché du travail en revue Approches envers le bien-être social et la dépendance à l’aide sociale Le Réseau canadien de chercheurs dans le domaine du marché du travail et des compétences (RCCMTC) a le plaisir de présenter le numéro du mois de septembre 2012 de Marché...
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Labour Market Matters - September 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
September 2012: Labour Market Matters Addressing welfare and social assistance dependency The Canadian Labour Market … month’s issue examines different approaches to addressing welfare and social assistance dependency. It is often a struggle … achieving low government costs in the structuring of income assistance (welfare) policies. In recent years governments in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184463
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Why are the Relative Wages of Immigrants Declining? A Distributional Approach
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over different points of the wage distribution. The well-documented decline in the immigrant-Canadian born mean wage gap hides a much larger decline at the low end of the wage...
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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184374
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The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men
Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
in some cases affects patterns of wage assimilation of immigrants. …
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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
les systèmes d’immigration ainsi que les structures d’enseignement sont peut-être les raisons de ces différences entre la …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184383
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Immigration and Location Choices of Native-Born Workers in Canada
Aydede, Yigit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar … is effective, immigration might lead to out-migration of the nonimmigrant population from a community in the short run … industry-specific immigration density differentials across regions are measured only at destinations, they have strong and …
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