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Career Goals in High School : Do Students Know What it Takes to Reach Them, and Does it Matter?
Frenette, Marc - 2012
Do students know the education required to achieve their career objectives? Is this information related to their … education pathways? To address these questions, the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), Cohort A is used to compare high school … students’ perceptions of the level of education they will require for the job they intend to hold at age 30, with the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168315
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Income Replacement Rates Among Canadian Seniors : The Effect of Widowhood and Divorce
Larochelle-Côté, Sebastien - 2012
Using a longitudinal database and fixed-effects econometric models, this paper assesses the effect of widowhood or widowerhood, and divorce after age 55 on income replacement rates during the retirement years. Among women, separation or divorce has a larger negative effect than does widowhood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104478
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An Investment of a Lifetime? The Long-term Labour Market Premiums Associated with a Postsecondary Education
Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
spanning their mid-30s to their mid-50s. Three levels of education are considered, corresponding to the decisions made by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003201
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The Human Capital Model of Selection and the Long-run Economic Outcomes of Immigrants
Qiu, Theresa; Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003202
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Wages and Full-time Employment Rates of Young High School Graduates and Bachelor?s Degree Holders, 1997 to 2012
Morissette, Rene; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
This study examines which factors underlie the narrowing of wage differences seen between young bachelor?s degree holders and high school graduates from the 2000-to-2002 period to the 2010-to-2012 period and the widening of differences in full-time paid employment rates between these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003205
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Access to College and University: Does Distance Matter?
Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
sex, province, family income, and parental education, students living near a college are more likely to attend college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328101
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Setting up Shop: Self-employment Amongst Canadian College and University Graduates
Laporte, Christine; Rivard, Maud-Catherine; Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002
graduates; Simple point-in-time (cross-sectional) comparisons of earnings, the job-education skill match, and job satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328103
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Participation in Post-secondary Education in Canada: Has the Role of Parental Income and Education Changed over the 1990s?
Drolet, Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
This paper examines the extent to which the relationship between participation in post-secondary education and family … background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long … account of both parental education and parental income, university participation rates are more strongly associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328107
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Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-term
Lauzon, Darren; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
This paper adopts the decomposition technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (DFL, 1996) to decompose provincial differences in the distribution of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test scores and assesses the relative contribution of provincial differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328109
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Does Parent or Child Know Best? an Assessment of Parent/Child Agreement in the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
Phipps, Shelley; Dooley, Martin; Curtis, Laurie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002
We use data from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to address two questions. To what extent do parents and children agree when asked identical questions about child well-being? To what extent do differences in their responses affect what one infers from multivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328127