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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
intitulée «Le rôle de l’éducation dans l’utilisation et l’adoption de la technologie : Données probantes de l’Enquête sur le … travailleurs sur leur utilisation et leur adoption des nouvelles techniques. L’étude montre que l’éducation exerce des effets …
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Labour Market Matters - January 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
British Columbia) and Xueda Song (York University) entitled “The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence …€™ educational attainment on their use and adoption of new technologies. The study shows that education exerts causal impacts on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184451
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Labour Market Matters - July 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Recent trends in inequality and poverty across Western Canada, a region known for its energy resources, seem to correspond to movements in energy prices, with much of the rise in inequality and decline in poverty taking place during the energy boom from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. These...
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The Distributional Impacts of an Energy Boom in Western Canada
Marchand, Joseph - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In the energy-rich region of Western Canada, inequality rose over the past two decades, while poverty declined, begging the question of whether the recent energy boom was a contributing factor. This study uses measures of inequality and poverty across local labor markets that vary in energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184411
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Marché du travail en revue - Juillet 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Les récentes tendances de l’inégalité et de la pauvreté dans l’Ouest du Canada, région connue pour ses ressources énergétiques, semblent suivre les variations des prix de l’énergie, le plus gros de la hausse de l’inégalité et de la pauvreté s’étant produit lors du boom de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184423
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The Causal Effects of Education on Adaptability
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals’ adaptability to employment shocks …. Specifically, we assess the extent to which education influences re-employment success for unemployed workers. We also examine the … impact of education on job search intensity, one potential mechanism through which education may increase the probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004975590
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Long Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation
Emery, Herb; Ferrer, Ana; Green, David - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Tight labour markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil producing economies like the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks of 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long term effect on the productivity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852550
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How Important are School Principals in the Production of Student Achievement?
Dhuey, Elizabeth; Smith, Justin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
As school leaders, principals can influence student achievement in a number of ways, such as: hiring and firing teachers, monitoring instruction, and maintaining student discipline, among others. We measure the effect of individual principals on gains in student math and reading achievement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395118
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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive … correlations between the level of education and the rate of technology adoption, however, do not necessarily reflect the true … causal effect of education on technology adoption. Relying on data from the Workplace and Employee Survey, this study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350697
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The Effect of High School Shootings on Schools and Student Performance
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Kim, Dongwoo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
We analyze how fatal shootings in high schools affect schools and students using data from shooting databases, school report cards, and the Common Core of Data. We examine schools’ test scores, enrollment, and number of teachers, as well as graduation, attendance, and suspension rates at...
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