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The Impact of Social Networks on Labour Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Cape Breton
Khan, Adnan Q.; Lehrer, Steven F. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
assignment to a unique intervention to identify the impact of changes in the size of alternative social network measures on … effect heterogeneity based on the initial size of one’s social network; but those whose strong ties increased at a higher …, our results suggest that policies can successfully influence the size of an individual’s social network, but these …
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper explores the fertility patterns of immigrant children to Canada using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census from 1991 through 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, with a sharp rise for those immigrating in their late teens and this pattern is similar for all...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509637
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Seeking Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper reviews the recent research on labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and the United States (i.e., the 2nd generation), and its determinants. The paper focuses on outcome gaps between the 2nd and third-and-higher generations, as well as the intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468949
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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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Temporary Foreign Workers and Former International Students as a Source of Permanent Immigration
Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We compare the economic outcomes of former Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) and former international students to immigrants who have no Canadian human capital at the time of landing. First, controlling for all possible variables that are adjustable under the current Canadian points system, we...
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Performance Pay and the White-Black Wage Gap
Heywood, John S.; Parent, Daniel - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We show that the reported tendency for performance pay to be associated with greater wage inequality at the top of the earnings distribution applies only to white workers. This results in the white-black wage differential among those in performance pay jobs growing over the earnings distribution...
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Are the Labour Market Benefits to Schooling Different for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People
Frenette, Marc - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
It is well documented that Aboriginal people generally have lower levels of educational attainment than other groups in Canada, but little is known about the reasons behind this gap. This study is the first of two by the same author investigating the issue in detail. This initial paper focuses...
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What Explains the Educational Attainment Gap between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Youth?
Frenette, Marc - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Aboriginal people generally have lower levels of educational attainment than other groups in Canada, but little is known about the reasons behind this gap. This study is the second of two by the same author investigating the issue in detail. The first paper (Frenette 2011) concludes that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191057
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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...
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