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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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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
While not speaking either English or French is widely understood to be a serious barrier to employment and gainful … 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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Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration
Boyd, Monica - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
factors influence the likelihood of employment in linguistic enclaves; and 2) What are the impacts of working in linguistic … determination models also confirm that employment in linguistic enclaves conditions weekly earnings; allophone immigrants who use … non-official languages at work have lower wages than those who use only English at work. …
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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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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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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Canadian Evidence from a Large Administrative Database on Firm Closures and Mass Layoffs
Frenette, Marc; Morissette, René; Zhang, Xuelin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File, we document short-term and long-term earnings losses for a large (10%) sample of Canadian workers who lost their job through firm closures or mass layoffs during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Our use of a nationally representative sample...
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Cohort Size and Youth Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
In this paper, I use data from the Canadian Labour Force Surveys (LFS), and the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses to estimate the impact of an important labor supply shock on the earnings of young high-school graduates. The abolition of Ontario’s Grade 13 generated a ‘double’...
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Diminishing Impatience: Disentangling Time Preference from Uncertain Lifetime
Halevy, Yoram - Vancouver School of Economics - 2004
A decision maker with time consistent preferences may exhibit diminishing impatience, when uncertain lifetime is accounted for. Uncertain lifetime captures not only the risk of mortality, but also the possibility that a promise for a delayed reward might be breached, or a postponed consumption...
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