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Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship

Meredith, John - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

Canadian apprenticeship policy has recently turned to direct subsidies for participants, including a federal tax incentive for employers. Some assumptions underlying the employer subsidy are: that apprenticeship training is a principal contributor to the skilled trades labour supply; that...

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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation

Boucher, Vincent; Bramoullé, Yann; Djebbari, Habiba; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. The approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem, without imposing ad hoc exclusion restrictions or requiring...

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The Evaluation of Immigrants' Credentials: The Roles of Accreditation, Immigrant Race, and Evaluator Biases

Caroline, Bennett-AbuAyyash; Dietz, Joerg; Esses, … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

Theories of subtle prejudice imply that personnel decision makers might inadvertently discriminate against immigrant … removal of these ambiguities (e.g., recognition of foreign credentials as equivalent to local credentials), discrimination …

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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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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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Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew but not Samir? New evidence from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

Dechief, Diane; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

investigate why Canadian immigrants struggle in the labor market. The findings suggested significant discrimination by name … discrimination occurs -- that is, whether this discrimination can be attributed to underlying concerns about worker productivity or … simply prejudice, and whether the behaviour is likely conscious or not. We examine callback rates from sending resumes to …

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Public Policy and the Economic Wellbeing of Elderly Immigrants

Baker, Michael; Benjamin, Dwayne; Fan, Elliot - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

age dimensions of immigration to Canada since 1980, and the evolution of policies directed towards older immigrants (i ….e., immigration selection, and eligibility for age-related social security programs). Second, using the SCF and SLID surveys spanning …

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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 workersÂ’ poor access to high-wage jobsÂ— that is, glass ceilingsÂ— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage Â…rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...

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Working In a Regulated Occupation in Canada: An Immigrant - Native-Born Comparison

Girard, Magali; Smith, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

The number of immigrants working in regulated and unregulated occupations is unknown. A major contribution of this study is that we use Statistics Canada data to classify occupations, across provinces, into regulated and unregulated categories and then to examine the covariates of membership in...

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The Effect of Immigrant Selection and the IT Bust on the Entry Earnings of Immigrants

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

Immigrant selection rules were altered in the early 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the share of entering immigrants with a university degree and in the skilled economic class. These changes were very successfully implemented following significant deterioration in entry earnings...

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