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-ante identical populations. We then examine how different government homecare subsidy schemes may affect such gender inequality in … the labor market. We show that the effect of government homecare subsidy schemes on gender inequality depends crucially on …
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of most theories of labour market discrimination and public policies in this area. Earnings based estimates combine … 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 …
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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 …
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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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We examine whether the factors associated with the rise in the Canadian born - immigrant entry earnings gap played … characteristics had the most important effect in the 1980s when their earnings gap expanded the most, but this â … concentration of immigrants in IT-related occupations, was the primary explanation of the increase in their earnings gap …
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in an ad hoc way. This paper explores a formal method for designing a points system based on a human capital earnings …
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Higher after-tax returns to skill in U.S. states compared to Canadian provinces have raised the issue that higher skilled Canadian workers especially will find migration to the U.S. economically attractive, and especially so after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), provisions of...
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We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
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We utilize an instrumental variable approach to analyse the effect that dropping out of high school has on 17 outcomes pertaining to wages, employment and subsequent skill acquisition for youths. Our analysis is based on the older cohort of the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) for 2003, an...
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In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50 … as retirement, preventing observation of their potential earnings losses. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income … following displacement. Results indicate that self-selection is an important factor to consider when studying the earnings of …
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