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A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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Labour Market Matters - May 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

Between 1970 and 2005, the share of total earnings in the Canadian labour market going to middle-class workers has fallen significantly, while the earnings share of higher-earnings workers has risen. Is the middle-class being hollowed out? A paper by CLSRN affiliate Charles Beach (Queenâ€™s...

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Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew but not Samir? New evidence from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

Dechief, Diane; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

investigate why Canadian immigrants struggle in the labor market. The findings suggested significant discrimination by name … discrimination occurs -- that is, whether this discrimination can be attributed to underlying concerns about worker productivity or … earlier findings from Oreopoulos (2009) for Toronto in better economic circumstances. If name-based discrimination arises from …

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Experimental Elicitation of Ambiguity Attitude using the Random Incentive System

Baillon, Aurelien; Halevy, Yoram; Li, Chen - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

We demonstrate how the standard usage of the random incentive system in ambiguity experiments is not incentive compatible if the decision maker is ambiguity averse. We propose a slight modification of the procedure in which the randomization takes place before decisions are made and the state is...

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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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Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration

Boyd, Monica - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

This paper studies the role played by linguistic enclaves on the economic integration of immigrants to Canada. Linguistic enclaves are defined as groups of people who are similar with respect to languages used on their jobs. A five category classification of major types of linguistic enclaves is...

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Universal Early Childhood Interventions: What is the Evidence Base?

Baker, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Universality is a hallmark of Canadian social policy for very young children. The evidence base for these policies is small, non-experimental and offers mixed results. In contrast the evidence base for targeted early childhood interventions is largely experimental and offers strong guidance....

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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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A Competing Risks Analysis of the Determinants of Low Completion Rates in the Canadian Apprenticeship System

Dostie, Benoit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

In this paper, we estimate the determinants of low (and slow) completion rates with a competing risk duration model using data from the National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) 2007. This allows us to distinguish the impact age and duration dependence on the probability of dropping out. We find...

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What Has Happened to Middle-Class Earnings? Distributional Shifts in Earnings in Canada, 1970-2005

Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

This paper examines how middle-class earnings in Canada have changed between 1970 and 2005 using Census microdata. Middle-class earnings are defined as workersâ€™ earnings between 50 and 150 percent of the median or as earnings between the 20th and 80th percentile earnings. The analysis...

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