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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 …
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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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Extending the L1-IV approach proposed by Sakata (1997, 2007), we develop a new method, named the $rho_{tau}$-IV estimation, to estimate structural equations based on the conditional quantile restriction imposed on the error terms. We study the asymptotic behavior of the proposed estimator and...
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. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The paper analyzes three possible general methods to measure …
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This paper studies the incidence and duration of unemployment in Canada at an aggregate and a number of disaggregated levels with data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey covering 1976 to 2006. The principal empirical findings indicate that most of the changes in steady state unemployment...
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analysis indicates that dropouts have poorer wage and employment outcomes, and they do not make up for their lack of education …
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. Examples are the health, education and general government sectors. The System of National Accounts 1993 recommends valuing …
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post-migration education on new immigrants’ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status … professional or managerial occupation prior to migration are most likely to enroll in Canadian education. But, acceptance of … previous work experience by Canadian employers lowers the likelihood of enrolling in further education. Financial capital was …
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education in the selection of economic immigrants is creating an imbalance between the supply of both first and second …
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of education between immigrants and their children. On average, the children of immigrants have educational levels … residence, the children of immigrants outperform the 3rd-and-higher generation in educational attainment. Parental education and … the positive gap between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations remains in Canada. In Canada, parental education is less …
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