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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

increases dramatically reduces the contribution of MFP to growth. …

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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

, successful occupational matching does not have any impact on the return to foreign potential work experience. However, immigrants …

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Ability, Parental Valuation of Education and the High School Dropout Decision

Foley, Kelly; Gallipoli, Giovanni; Green, David A. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

factor model set out in Carneiro, Hansen, and Heckman (2003). Specifically, we consider the impact of cognitive and non … age 15 has a substantial impact on dropping out. Second, parental valuation of education has an impact of approximately … contribution by extending the standard factor based estimator to allow a non-linear relationship between the factors and a …

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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of immigrants (the 2nd generation) in Canada and the United States. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations (the children of...

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The Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005

Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....

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Language at Work: The Impact of Linguistic Enclaves on Immigrant Economic Integration

Boyd, Monica - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

This paper studies the role played by linguistic enclaves on the economic integration of immigrants to Canada. Linguistic enclaves are defined as groups of people who are similar with respect to languages used on their jobs. A five category classification of major types of linguistic enclaves is...

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The Persistence Behaviour of Registered Apprentices: Who Continues, Quits, or Completes Programs?

Laporte, Christine; Mueller, Richard - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We utilize a multinomial probit model and the 2007 National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) to investigate the persistence behaviour of individuals enrolled in apprenticeship programs. These behaviours include continuing, discontinuing (or quitting) and completing programs. The NAS contains detailed...

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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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