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bachelor's degree, compared to completing a high school diploma. Several labour market outcomes of individuals are examined … spanning their mid-30s to their mid-50s. Three levels of education are considered, corresponding to the decisions made by … students following high school graduation: a high school diploma, a college certificate, and a bachelor's degree. Longitudinal …
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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...
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holders and high school graduates from the 2000-to-2002 period to the 2010-to-2012 period and the widening of differences in …. Changes in the population of bachelor?s degree holders relative to the population of high school graduates are used to capture …
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Previous research suggests that high-school students living beyond commuting distance from a university are far less …, how does this uptake in college participation differ by class of income? And finally, does distance to school deter … sex, province, family income, and parental education, students living near a college are more likely to attend college …
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graduates; Simple point-in-time (cross-sectional) comparisons of earnings, the job-education skill match, and job satisfaction …
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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 …
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contribution of provincial differences in the distribution of "class size" and time-in-term, other school factors and student … background factors. Class size and time-in-term are both important school choice variables and we examine how provincial …
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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...
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provides important insights on the effects of factors, such as education and income, that help establish this selection process. …
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to a university education, or a shift in demand favouring specific degrees. …
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