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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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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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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 … of most theories of labour market discrimination and public policies in this area. Earnings based estimates combine … gender differences in wages with gender differences in decisions of how much to work (i.e., hours). Our results reveal …

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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 immigrantsâ€™ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status. The results indicate that younger immigrants who...

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Immigrant Earnings Differences Across Admission Categories and Landing Cohorts in Canada

Abbott, Michael G.; Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four major admission categories (skill-assessed independent economic principal applicants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual...

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Why Have Poorer Neighbourhoods Stagnated Economically, While the Richer have Flourished? Neighbourhood Income Inequality in Canadian Cities

Chen, W. H.; Myles, John; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Higher income neighbourhoods in Canadaâ€™s eight largest cities flourished economically during the past quarter century, while lower income communities stagnated. This paper identifies some of the underlying processes that led to this outcome. Increasing family income inequality drove much...

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Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth

Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, Chris - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

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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Compensating Wage Differentials in Stable Job Matching Equilibrium

Han, Seungjin; Yamaguchi, Shintaro - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

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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The Economic Return on New Immigrants' Human Capital: the Impact of Occupational Matching

Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

Using a data set that provides information on source country employment, we examine the effect of source and host country occupational matching on earnings and the economic rate of return to the foreign human capital of immigrants in Canada. Examining occupational distributions we find that...

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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

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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