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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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This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four … first ten years following their landing in Canada as permanent residents. The findings provide a ten-year earnings signature …-assessed economic immigrants had consistently and substantially the highest annual earnings levels among the four admission categories …
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richer from poorer neighbourhoods. Rather, it was the type of job found, particularly the annual earnings generated. The end …
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Separate identification of the price and quantity of human capital has important implications for understanding key issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated and they exhibit a strong secular trend. Three...
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This paper studies implicit pricing of non-wage job characteristics in the labour market using a two-sided matching model. It departs from the previous literature by allowing worker heterogeneity in productivity, which gives rise to a double transaction problem in a hedonic model. Deriving...
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We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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enclaves on earnings? These questions are answered by examining the economic integration of immigrant allophone women and men … individuals are employed. Further language at work mediates much of the observed impacts of language proficiency on earnings. Wage … determination models also confirm that employment in linguistic enclaves conditions weekly earnings; allophone immigrants who use …
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