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This paper uses the Canadian Labour Force Survey to understand why the level and dispersion of wages have evolved differently across provinces from 1997 to 2013. The starker interprovincial differences are the much faster increase in the level of wages and decline in wage dispersion in...
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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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analysis indicates that dropouts have poorer wage and employment outcomes, and they do not make up for their lack of education …
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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 … professional or managerial occupation prior to migration are most likely to enroll in Canadian education. But, acceptance of …
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issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated … reflecting optimal human capital investment paths using the estimated price series, and adjusting the labor input for quality …
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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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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. Returns to education also rose, albeit more modestly, for Canadian women …
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There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems have been influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally been incorporated in an ad hoc way. This paper explores a formal...
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returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men between 1980 and 2000, in contrast to conclusions reached in … and late 1990s. Returns to education also rose for Canadian women, but the magnitudes of the increases were more modest … education has recently been reversed for both men and women. Another important development is that after fifteen years of …
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We compare predicted relative immigrant wage profiles based on returns to YSM and to foreign and host-country sources of schooling and experience. We find the biases inherent in inferring assimilation from a return to YSM appear more substantial than those emanating from the assumptions...
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