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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Effects of Selection Criteria and Economic Opportunities on the Characteristics of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

provides important insights on the effects of factors, such as education and income, that help establish this selection process. …

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Cohort Effects in Annual Earnings by Field of Study Among British Columbia University Graduates

Heisz, Andrew - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

to a university education, or a shift in demand favouring specific degrees. …

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