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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
the twin suppositions that employers of apprentices are uniformly high contributors to skill formation, and that high … training-related costs risks generally deter their participation. Differences in training behaviour are attributed to high-skill … versus low-skill business strategies that in turn reflect differing product markets and regulatory constraints. Whatever the …
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Marché du travail en revue - Septembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon de nombreuses recherches, il semble que les immigrants plus qualifiés, en particulier dans les domaines des sciences, de la technologie, de l’ingénierie et des mathématiques, sont non seulement plus innovateurs que leurs collègues nés au pays qui les a reçus, mais qu’ils ont...
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Does Online Search Crowd Out Traditional Search and Improve Matching Efficiency? Evidence from Craigslist
Kroft, Kory; Pope, Devin G. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Ever since the seminal work of Stigler (1962), economists have recognized that information in markets is costly to acquire and can lead to “search frictionsâ€. The remarkable growth in online search has substantially lowered the cost of information acquisition. Despite this, there is...
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Labour Market Matters - September 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), are not only more innovative than their native-born counterparts but also have the … produce starkly different results. A study entitled “Immigrant Skill Selection and Utilization: A Comparative Analysis of …
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Immigrant Skill Selection and Utilization: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Canada, and the United States
Clarke, Andrew; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
We compare literacy test scores and relative wage and employment outcomes of Australian, Canadian and U.S. immigrants … using the 2003/2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS). We find substantially higher immigrant skill levels at the … top. In addition, we identify substantially larger wage returns to immigrant skill in the U.S., which we argue reflects …
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Why do Immigrant Workers in Australia Perform Better than in Canada? Is it the Immigrants or their Labour Markets?
Clarke, Andrew; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
superior employment and earnings outcomes in Australia. Examining Australian and Canadian Census data between 1986 and 2006, we …
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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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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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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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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 …. Examining occupational distributions we find that immigrants converge very quickly to the skill distribution of the Canadian …
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