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significant deterioration in entry earnings during the 1980s. This paper asks whether these change in immigrant selection … contributed positively to immigrant entry earnings during the 1990s. Moving to the 2000s, the paper asks whether, after almost two … decades of deterioration, the entry earnings of immigrants improved early in the decade, and if not, why not. We find that …
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to Canada since the 1990s, has not led to a large improvement in immigrant earnings as may have been expected given the …€œTechnological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 145), CLSRN …
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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 … education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided with cross cohort declines in cognitive …
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-tenure displaced workers experience earnings losses due to reduced income during unemployment following displacement. However, unlike … earnings losses, while those who have been employed for brief periods experience small losses. Like other job losers, long …
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earnings when they find reemployment. These losses are large and persistent, and can easily dwarf the transitory losses from …
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find that both groups experience roughly the same earnings losses in the long run. Furthermore, the income losses (before …Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in … response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an “added worker effect†for the earnings of …
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This paper studies the incidence and duration of unemployment in Canada at an aggregate and a number of disaggregated levels with data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey covering 1976 to 2006. The principal empirical findings indicate that most of the changes in steady state unemployment...
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as retirement, preventing observation of their potential earnings losses. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income …In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50 … following displacement. Results indicate that self-selection is an important factor to consider when studying the earnings of …
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-trivial labour market earnings, and 56-65 % of them depend on the labour market for their primary source of income. This group of …The central objective of this study is to investigate the income sources and patterns of prime-age and older workers … administrative data marking the job separation, we track all of their sources of income over an interval that spans four years prior …
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Change is an enduring feature of the economy and the labour market, even in normal times. The importance of adjusting to change, and of policies that promote adjustment, has been a recurring theme throughout David Dodge’s distinguished career. This paper deals with “displaced...
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