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Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration
Boyd, Monica - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
non-official languages at work have lower wages than those who use only English at work. …
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Determinants and Effects of Post-Migration Education Among New Immigrants in Canada
Banerjee, Rupa; Verma, Anil - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This study investigates post-migration educational investment among newly arrived immigrants and examines the effect of post-migration education on new immigrants’ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status. The results indicate that younger immigrants who...
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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes » (Rapport de...
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
time, and can also have an impact on immigrant wages. The selection and admittance of increasingly well-educated immigrants …
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Technological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive...
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper explores the fertility patterns of immigrant children to Canada using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian … Census from 1991 through 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, with a sharp rise for those immigrating in their … mechanism through which age at immigration affects fertility – fertility of immigrants with an official mother tongue also …
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Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality
Bjerk, David; Han, Seungjin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2005
We develop a model of the labor market where firms incur an adjustment cost when one of their workers quits, and males and females form households assortatively by skill. We show how this environment can lead to an economy where females earn less and drop out more frequently than equally skilled...
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
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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...
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A New View of the Male/Female Pay Gap
Baker, Michael; Drolet, Marie - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
the earnings data that has been used in the past. Wages more closely correspond to the price of labour, which is the focus … gender differences in wages with gender differences in decisions of how much to work (i.e., hours). Our results reveal … only 0.72. We also find that as the gender wage ratio has risen, the remaining gap in wages is increasingly unexplained in …
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