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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Au fur et à mesure que les activités économiques axées sur le savoir augmentent dans les pays développés, l’information, la technologie et l’apprentissage jouent un rôle croissant. L’utilisation et l’adoption des nouvelles techniques par les entreprises et les travailleurs...
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Labour Market Matters - January 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
As developed countries shift more toward knowledge-based economic activities, information, technology, and learning … British Columbia) and Xueda Song (York University) entitled “The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence … certain measures of technology use and adoption, although not all. Since its launch in 1995, Craigslist, has served as a …
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Marché du travail en revue - Septembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon de nombreuses recherches, il semble que les immigrants plus qualifiés, en particulier dans les domaines des sciences, de la technologie, de l’ingénierie et des mathématiques, sont non seulement plus innovateurs que leurs collègues nés au pays qui les a reçus, mais qu’ils ont...
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Immigrant Skill Selection and Utilization: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Canada, and the United States
Clarke, Andrew; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
We compare literacy test scores and relative wage and employment outcomes of Australian, Canadian and U.S. immigrants using the 2003/2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS). We find substantially higher immigrant skill levels at the lower end of the distribution in Australia,...
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Labour Market Matters - September 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), are not only more innovative than their native-born counterparts but also have the …
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Why do Immigrant Workers in Australia Perform Better than in Canada? Is it the Immigrants or their Labour Markets?
Clarke, Andrew; Skuterud, Mikal - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Research comparing the labour market performance of recent cohorts of immigrants to Australia and Canada points to superior employment and earnings outcomes in Australia. Examining Australian and Canadian Census data between 1986 and 2006, we find that this performance advantage is not driven by...
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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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Does Online Search Crowd Out Traditional Search and Improve Matching Efficiency? Evidence from Craigslist
Kroft, Kory; Pope, Devin G. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Ever since the seminal work of Stigler (1962), economists have recognized that information in markets is costly to acquire and can lead to “search frictionsâ€. The remarkable growth in online search has substantially lowered the cost of information acquisition. Despite this, there is...
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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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Why Have Poorer Neighbourhoods Stagnated Economically, While the Richer have Flourished? Neighbourhood Income Inequality in Canadian Cities
Chen, W. H.; Myles, John; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Higher income neighbourhoods in Canada’s eight largest cities flourished economically during the past quarter century, while lower income communities stagnated. This paper identifies some of the underlying processes that led to this outcome. Increasing family income inequality drove much...
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