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Marriage, Cohabitation and Women’s Response to Changes in the Male Wage Structure
Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian; Morissette, René - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using micro data and grouped data that cover the period 1996-2006, we assess the extent to which cohabiting women adjust their labour supply to a lesser extent, if any, than married women in response to changes in male wages. Both micro data regressions and grouping estimators unambiguously...
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Ability, Parental Valuation of Education and the High School Dropout Decision
Foley, Kelly; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Green, David A. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
We use a large, rich Canadian micro-level dataset to examine the channels through which family socio-economic status and unobservable characteristics affect children's decisions to drop out of high school. First, we document the strength of observable socio-economic factors: our data suggest...
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Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labour Supply
Gallipoli, Giovanni; Turner, Laura - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
to selection into and out of marriage, while the second hinges on insurance transfers taking place within households. We … and life-cycle labour supply, endogenous marriage contracts and the possibility of time transfers between partners. We … also report evidence that the extended model with endogenous marriage contracts can fit divorce patterns observed in …
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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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How Would One Extra Year of High School Affect Wages? Evidence from a Unique Policy Change
Krashinsky, Harry - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper uses a unique policy change in Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, to provide direct evidence on the effect of reducing the length of high school on labour market outcomes for high school graduates. In 1999, the Ontario government eliminated the fifth year of education...
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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
. Another important development is that after years of expansion, the wage gap between younger and older workers stabilized …
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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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Selecting Economic Immigrants: An Actuarial Approach
McHale, John; Rogers, Keith - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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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The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions
Caponi, Vincenzo; Kayahan, Cevat Burc; Plesca, Miana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
The literature has not yet resolved whether the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on training decisions is positive or negative. On the one hand, the opportunity cost to train is lower during downturns, and thus training should be counter-cyclical. On the other hand, a positive shock may be...
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