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Do Education Decisions Respond to Returns by Field of Study?
Gunderson, Morley; Krashinsky, Harry - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
prospective students do choose fields of study in part at least on the basis of earnings they can expect to receive in those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468948
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Labour Market Matters - April 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
achievement of students who do or do not experience a strike –an empirical strategy that is unlikely to reveal whether teacher … strikes affect students. These studies tend to conclude that strikes do not have a significant impact. A study by CLSRN …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184420
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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
quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors … performance gap in terms of class dropout and pass rates between white and minority students falls by roughly half when taught by … a minority instructor. In models that allow for a full set of ethnic and racial interactions between students and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350698
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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
We use a large, rich Canadian micro-level dataset to examine the channels through which family socio-economic status and unobservable characteristics affect children's decisions to drop out of high school. First, we document the strength of observable socio-economic factors: our data suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509636
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977030
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675768
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852550
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184406
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184452
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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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