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Toute personne entrant sur le marché du travail avec un niveau scolaire relativement faible découvre souvent qu’il lui manque le capital humain et les diplômes nécessaires pour s’adapter au marché du travail qui change rapidement au Canada. La grave récession des débuts des années...
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return to work, ii) a return to school, and iii) an improvement in the score obtained from the Test of Workplace Essential …
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We utilize the 2000 cohort of university graduates from the National Graduate Survey (NGS) to estimate the extent to which the choice of field of study is influenced by expected returns to those fields of study. The expected returns are based on earnings equations estimated from the earlier 1990...
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Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability. Moreover, researchers have not considered graduate degree attainment in the analysis of labour market...
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school diploma increased from 34 percent to 43 percent during this period. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s …. For instance, the adjusted BA-high school wage differential among women increased about 4 percentage points between 1980 …
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estimate the impact of an important labor supply shock on the earnings of young high-school graduates. The abolition of … Ontario’s Grade 13 generated a ‘double’ cohort of high-school graduates that simultaneously entered the Ontario labor … that the immediate impact of the supply shock—measured about six months after high-school graduation—is also important. …
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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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A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
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other labour market outcomes including wages and school enrolment, and other samples of younger men and women. There is no …
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University) estimates the effect of workforce aging on youth unemployment, employment, wages and school enrolment. The study … high school shootings make up a relatively small percentage of teenage murders, their negative impact on student psyche can … and, even more problematically, students may avoid attending school. Violent incidents can affect the allocation of …
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