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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement
Belley, Phillippe; Lochner, Lance - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
that incorporates both borrowing constraints and a `consumption' value of schooling – two of the most commonly invoked … explanations for a positive family income - schooling relationship. Without borrowing constraints, the model cannot explain the … experienced from the early 1980s to early 2000s: the incentives created by a 'consumption' value of schooling imply that income …
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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
En Amérique du Nord, les étudiants dont les parents ont émigré obtiennent en général un meilleur niveau d’études que ceux dont les parents sont nés au Canada. En Europe, on constate l’inverse. Au Canada, les étudiants de parents immigrants (de 1re ou de 2e génération) suivent des...
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Open Enrolment and Student Achievement
Friesen, Jane; Harris, Benjamin Cerf; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with available space, on fourth grade test scores. We find a small, positive effect on the average student; this benefit appears to stem from increased competition among schools,...
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Labour Market Matters - January 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In North America, students with immigrant parents typically achieve higher levels of education than their counterparts with domestic-born parents. In Europe however, the opposite is typically true. In Canada, immigrants students (1st or 2nd generation) are 1.6 times as likely to attend...
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Estimating the BenefiÂ…t of High School for College-Bound Students
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Studies based on instrumental variable techniques suggest that the value of a high school education is large for potential dropouts, yet we know much less about the size of the benefiÂ…t for students who will go on to post-secondary education. To help Â…fill this gap, I measure the...
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The Pursuit of Post-Secondary Education: A Comparison of First Nations, African, Asian and European Canadian Youth
Thiessen, Victor - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using the nationally representative longitudinal Youth in Transition Survey, this paper examines the argument that inferior educational outcomes of various visible minorities and immigrants can be attributed to their socio-economic disadvantages, while superior outcomes of other visible...
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What Explains the Educational Attainment Gap between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Youth?
Frenette, Marc - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
detail. The first paper (Frenette 2011) concludes that the labour market benefits to pursuing further schooling are generally …
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Workforce Aging and the Labour Market Opportunities of Youth: Evidence from Canada
Dhanjal, Sundip; Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In this study, we investigate whether an aging workforce affects the job opportunities of youth. Provincial data from the 1976-2013 Labour Force Surveys and a fixed-effects model is used to estimate the effect of the share of the adult male labour force that is aged 55 to 69 on the employment...
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Marché du travail en revue - Septembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon de nombreuses recherches, il semble que les immigrants plus qualifiés, en particulier dans les domaines des sciences, de la technologie, de l’ingénierie et des mathématiques, sont non seulement plus innovateurs que leurs collègues nés au pays qui les a reçus, mais qu’ils ont...
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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada’s Evolving Approach to Immigration Selection
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better...
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