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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
En Amérique du Nord, les étudiants dont les parents ont émigré obtiennent en général un meilleur niveau d’études que ceux dont les parents sont nés au Canada. En Europe, on constate l’inverse. Au Canada, les étudiants de parents immigrants (de 1re ou de 2e génération) suivent des...
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Labour Market Matters - January 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In North America, students with immigrant parents typically achieve higher levels of education than their counterparts … with domestic-born parents. In Europe however, the opposite is typically true. In Canada, immigrants students (1st or 2nd … generation) are 1.6 times as likely to attend university by age 23 as students with Canadian born parents. In Switzerland, 1st …
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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options
Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
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A Competing Risks Analysis of the Determinants of Low Completion Rates in the Canadian Apprenticeship System
Dostie, Benoit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we estimate the determinants of low (and slow) completion rates with a competing risk duration model using data from the National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) 2007. This allows us to distinguish the impact age and duration dependence on the probability of dropping out. We find...
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Marché du travail en revue - Novembre 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
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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Labour Market Matters - November 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Individuals who enter the labour market with relatively low levels of education often find that they lack the necessary human capital and credentials needed to adapt to the rapidly changing labour market in Canada. The severe recession of the early 1980s and early 1990s coupled with the...
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An analysis of a foundational learning program in BC: the Foundations Workplace Skills Program (FWSP) at Douglas College
Gray, David; Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
In this paper, we analyze the workings of a small-scale program involving foundational learning that is targeted at unemployed workers in Surrey, BC by exploiting information contained in the administrative data set that was compiled through its execution. Although this data set contains huge...
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Returns to Apprenticeship: Analysis based on the 2006 Census
Gunderson, Morley; Krashinsky, Harry - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
We utilize the 2006 Census -- the first large-scale, representative Canadian data set to include information on apprenticeship certification -- to compare the returns from apprenticeships with those from other educational pathways (high school graduation, non-apprenticeship trades and community...
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Long Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation
Emery, Herb; Ferrer, Ana; Green, David - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Tight labour markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil producing economies like the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks of 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long term effect on the productivity of the...
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The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement
Belley, Phillippe; Lochner, Lance - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts(NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...
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