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Marché du travail en revue - Octobre 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Au Canada, environ 20 % des emplois sont réglementés. En moyenne, ces emplois sont mieux rémunérés car ils exigent en général un meilleur niveau d’éducation ou de formation et la réglementation contrôlant l’accès à ces emplois tend à en restreindre l’admission. La politique...
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Labour Market Matters - October 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
About 20% of Canadians work in regulated occupations. On average, regulated occupations are expected to provide higher pay because they generally require a high level of education and/or training, and the regulations governing access to these occupations tend to restrict entrance into them....
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Cohort Size and Youth Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Morin, Louis-Philippe - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
estimate the impact of an important labor supply shock on the earnings of young high-school graduates. The abolition of … cohort size on earnings without the supply shock being possibly confounded with unobserved trends—a recurring problem in … the literature. The Census findings suggest that the effect of the supply shock is statistically and economically …
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Crucial contributors? Re-examining labour market impact and workplace-training intensity in Canadian trades apprenticeship
Meredith, John - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
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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Do Education Decisions Respond to Returns by Field of Study?
Gunderson, Morley; Krashinsky, Harry - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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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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...
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Workforce Aging and the Labour Market Opportunities of Youth: Evidence from Canada
Dhanjal, Sundip; Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In this study, we investigate whether an aging workforce affects the job opportunities of youth. Provincial data from the 1976-2013 Labour Force Surveys and a fixed-effects model is used to estimate the effect of the share of the adult male labour force that is aged 55 to 69 on the employment...
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Labour Market Matters - August 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Canada’s population has been aging steadily for several decades. In 1976, the median age of men in the population was only 27.2 years, but by 2013, had risen to 39.4 years. The trend reflects both an increase in the life expectancy of Canadians at birth and also the impact of the aging...
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Marché du travail en revue - Août 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
La population du Canada vieillit depuis plusieurs décennies. En 1976, l’âge moyen des hommes n’était que de 27,2 ans, alors qu’il atteint 39,4 ans en 2013. La tendance reflète à la fois une augmentation de l’espérance de vie des Canadiens à leur naissance, mais aussi l’impact du...
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Immigrant Earnings Differences Across Admission Categories and Landing Cohorts in Canada
Abbott, Michael G.; Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four major admission categories (skill-assessed independent economic principal applicants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual...
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