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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
growth of computerization in the workplace increasing the importance of non-routine cognitive skills. In a study entitled â …€œTechnological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 145), CLSRN …
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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
leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive skills and a greater wage return to university education. Controlling for …
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Immigrant Earnings Differences Across Admission Categories and Landing Cohorts in Canada
Abbott, Michael G.; Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four major admission categories (skill-assessed independent economic principal applicants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual...
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Why Have Poorer Neighbourhoods Stagnated Economically, While the Richer have Flourished? Neighbourhood Income Inequality in Canadian Cities
Chen, W. H.; Myles, John; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Higher income neighbourhoods in Canada’s eight largest cities flourished economically during the past quarter century …, while lower income communities stagnated. This paper identifies some of the underlying processes that led to this outcome …. Increasing family income inequality drove much of the rise in neighbourhood inequality. Increased spatial economic segregation …
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Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth
Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, Chris - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Separate identification of the price and quantity of human capital has important implications for understanding key issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated and they exhibit a strong secular trend. Three...
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Compensating Wage Differentials in Stable Job Matching Equilibrium
Han, Seungjin; Yamaguchi, Shintaro - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper studies implicit pricing of non-wage job characteristics in the labour market using a two-sided matching model. It departs from the previous literature by allowing worker heterogeneity in productivity, which gives rise to a double transaction problem in a hedonic model. Deriving...
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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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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration
Boyd, Monica - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper studies the role played by linguistic enclaves on the economic integration of immigrants to Canada. Linguistic enclaves are defined as groups of people who are similar with respect to languages used on their jobs. A five category classification of major types of linguistic enclaves is...
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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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