This study explores the labour market performance of low and high educated couples using Census data for the period …

This study assesses the effects of literacy and numeracy skills on the labour market outcomes of Canadian high school … those who do not complete their programs and wind up at the lower end of the labour market. Our findings similarly suggest … that training programs catering to drop-outs could substantially improve these individuals' labour market outcomes by …

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Canadians were exposed to low income during the 1993-1996 period. Our … main findings are the following. First, while 1 in 10 Canadians live in families with low income in a given year, as many … as 1 in 5 are exposed to at least one year of low income during a 4-year interval. Second, 1 in 20 Canadians are exposed …

The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two … separate data sets suggests that individuals from higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this …

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates …

also find that, during the 1980s, the expected weekly wages associated with all levels of education fell for younger … workers, both for men and women (from 2% to 16%, depending upon education level). Older employees, on the other hand …, experienced mixed results. Expected weekly wages rose for some older workers and fell for some others. …

This study extends previous work on the evolution of the education premium, and investigates the existence of diverging … changing demand for high-skilled workers by comparing relative wages of university graduates holding degrees in "applied …

explanation identified by the study is the dramatic improvement in the level of education of older workers over the last 14 years …. For example, from 1981 to 1994 the percentage of older male workers with grade 10 education or less declined from 41.9% to … 19.6%, while the percentage with post-secondary diplomas and degrees increased from 32.1% to 51.7%. The education level …

are rewarded slightly better than their male counterparts after controlling for experience, job tenure, education and …

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 … parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data …