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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options
Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
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How Do Families and Unattached Individuals Respond to Layoffs? Evidence from Canada
Morissette, René; Ostrovsky, Yuri - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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 teenagers. However, we find that among...
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Earnings Losses of Displaced Older Workers: Accounting for the Retirement Option
Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50. This is potentially complicated by the self-selection of older individuals out of the labour force and into activities such as retirement, preventing observation of their...
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Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration
Boyd, Monica - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
non-official languages at work have lower wages than those who use only English at work. …
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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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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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Unemployment Compensation and Adjustment Assistance for Displaced Workers: Policy Options for Canada
Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
other job losers, many long-tenure displaced workers become re-employed at significantly lower wages. EI does not take into …
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Marché du travail en revue - Avril 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Des exemples d’inégalité en éducation et de surqualification sur le marché du travail peuvent souvent se produire dans le même bâtiment administratif, comme par exemple un employé de bureau ayant un diplôme d’études supérieures et qui doit rendre compte à un supérieur n’ayant...
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Labor Market Conditions, Skill Requirements and Education Mismatch
Summerfield, Fraser - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
This paper shows that changes in the skill requirements of jobs are one way by which economic downturns affect job match quality. In doing so this paper makes two contributions to the literature. The first contribution is to document a stylized fact about the cyclicality of skill requirements...
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Labour Market Matters - April 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Examples of educational mismatch and overqualifcation in the labour market can often be found in the same office building – the clerical worker with a bachelor’s degree reporting to a manager with a high school education – as an example. Some have argued that mismatch in...
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