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The economic returns to a second official language : English in Quebec and French in the Rest-of-Canada

Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor); … - 2008

Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada …

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The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …

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Trade, wages, and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008

Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …

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The short- and long-term career effects of graduating in a recession : hysteresis and heterogeneity in the market for college graduates

Oreopoulos, Philip (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...

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FSU immigrants in Canada : a case of positive triple selection?

DeVoretz, Don J.; Battisti, Michele - 2009

This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada … Union allows an exogenous supply change in the number and type of FSU immigrants potentially destined to enter Canada. For …

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Choice of fields of study of Canadian university graduates : the role of gender and their parents' education

Boudarbat, Brahim (contributor); … - 2007

"This paper examines the determinants of the choice of field of study by university students using data from the Canadian National Graduate Survey. The sample of 18,708 graduates holding a Bachelor degree is interesting in itself knowing that these students completed their study and thus...

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The returns to computer use revisited, again

Dostie, Benoît (contributor); … - 2006

Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and re-examined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model to correct for both worker and workplace unobserved...