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Earnings Losses of Displaced Older Workers: Accounting for the Retirement Option
Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50. This is potentially complicated by the self-selection of older individuals out of the labour force and into activities such as retirement, preventing observation of their...
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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 (Queen’s...
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Has the Canadian Labour Market Polarized?
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
wage and employment structures have polarized, that is, whether wages and employment have grown more in high and low than …
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512496
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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 … gender differences in wages with gender differences in decisions of how much to work (i.e., hours). Our results reveal … only 0.72. We also find that as the gender wage ratio has risen, the remaining gap in wages is increasingly unexplained in …
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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 immigrants’ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status. The results indicate that younger immigrants who...
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Cohort Size and Youth Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
In this paper, I use data from the Canadian Labour Force Surveys (LFS), and the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses to estimate the impact of an important labor supply shock on the earnings of young high-school graduates. The abolition of Ontario’s Grade 13 generated a ‘double’...
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Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship
Meredith, John - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Canadian apprenticeship policy has recently turned to direct subsidies for participants, including a federal tax incentive for employers. Some assumptions underlying the employer subsidy are: that apprenticeship training is a principal contributor to the skilled trades labour supply; that...
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Do Education Decisions Respond to Returns by Field of Study?
Gunderson, Morley; Krashinsky, Harry - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We utilize the 2000 cohort of university graduates from the National Graduate Survey (NGS) to estimate the extent to which the choice of field of study is influenced by expected returns to those fields of study. The expected returns are based on earnings equations estimated from the earlier 1990...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468948
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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