The education outcomes of children born in Canada to immigrants are only weakly associated with the education levels of their parents. The intergenerational association in schooling levels is about three times as strong for the general population. We also find that the intergenerational...

We develop a framework for the dynamic analysis of unemployment and use it to examine the difference in unemployment rates between Canada and the United States over the period 1980-1993. An examination of both the incidence and the duration of unemployment uncovers a series of stylized facts...