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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 … development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper documents Canadian patterns in income inequality and investigates the … inequality, including the role of gender wage differences. Finally we outline policy options for reducing -- or slowing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184431
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184374
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
€œTechnological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 145), CLSRN …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184407
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Technological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada
Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
effect on overall Canadian earnings inequality. …
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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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Labour Market Matters - May 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
“Has the Canadian Labour Market Polarized?†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 133) analyses movements in wage inequality, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184400
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Papps, Kerry L. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191056
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184383
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Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada: An Interprovincial Perspective
Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2015
This paper uses the Canadian Labour Force Survey to understand why the level and dispersion of wages have evolved differently across provinces from 1997 to 2013. The starker interprovincial differences are the much faster increase in the level of wages and decline in wage dispersion in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184395
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Why Immigrant Background Matters for University Participation: A Comparison of Switzerland and Canada
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
This paper extends our understanding of the difference in university participation between students with and without immigrant backgrounds by contrasting outcomes in Switzerland and Canada, and by the use of new longitudinal data that are comparable between the countries. The research includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184442