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Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality
Bjerk, David; Han, Seungjin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2005
-ante identical populations. We then examine how different government homecare subsidy schemes may affect such gender inequality in … the labor market. We show that the effect of government homecare subsidy schemes on gender inequality depends crucially on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970947
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes » (Rapport de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184374
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
time, and can also have an impact on immigrant wages. The selection and admittance of increasingly well-educated immigrants …
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Technological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive...
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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. …
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A New View of the Male/Female Pay Gap
Baker, Michael; Drolet, Marie - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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 … the earnings data that has been used in the past. Wages more closely correspond to the price of labour, which is the focus …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004975588
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004975587
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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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