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choose to pursue further education following high school are a more select group than their non-Aboriginal counterparts in …
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En Amérique du Nord, les étudiants dont les parents ont émigré obtiennent en général un meilleur niveau d’études que ceux dont les parents sont nés au Canada. En Europe, on constate l’inverse. Au Canada, les étudiants de parents immigrants (de 1re ou de 2e génération) suivent des...
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university education, and the student’s secondary school performance as explanatory variables of university attendance patterns …
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In North America, students with immigrant parents typically achieve higher levels of education than their counterparts …
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of education between immigrants and their children. On average, the children of immigrants have educational levels … residence, the children of immigrants outperform the 3rd-and-higher generation in educational attainment. Parental education and … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …
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In universities across many western countries, student enrolments in economics discipline rose sharply towards the end of last decade but not in Canada. One reason for this outcome may be the continued perception of Canadian students of a lower economic reward to an economics degree. Using micro...
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differential impacts of smaller classes by race and freelunch status to become statistically insignificant. …
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This paper uses the Canadian Labour Force Survey to understand why the level and dispersion of wages have evolved differently across provinces from 1997 to 2013. The starker interprovincial differences are the much faster increase in the level of wages and decline in wage dispersion in...
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development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper documents Canadian patterns in income inequality and investigates the …Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has … inequality, including the role of gender wage differences. Finally we outline policy options for reducing -- or slowing the …
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growth in wage inequality over the 1980s and 1990s and nearly all the wage inequality growth in the upper fifth of the … not be assumed to be consistent by race. In a paper entitled “Performance Pay and the White-Black Wage Gapâ€* CLSRN … for performance pay to be associated with greater wage inequality at the top of the earnings distribution applies only to …
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