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Moving up or falling behind? : gender, promotions, and wages in canada

Javdani, Mohsen; McGee, Andrew D. - 2015

linked employer-employee data. We find that women in Canada are 3 percentage points less likely to be promoted and have …

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Job satisfaction and coworker pay in Canadian firms

Javdani, Mohsen; Krauth, Brian - 2019

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute income, but also their income relative to various reference groups (e.g. co-workers, friends, neighbors, relatives, etc.). We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to estimate...

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Does public information about school quality lead to flight from low-achieving schools?

Friesen, Jane; Javdani, Mohsen; Woodcock, Simon - 2009

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is revealed. In general, parents respond to information soon...

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First and second generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes : a comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman (contributor); … - 2006

to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source … countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the … educational attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education …

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Intergenerational earnings mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman (contributor); … - 2006

immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

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Intergenerational education mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman (contributor); … - 2008

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is...

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Immigrant selection and short-term labour market outcomes by visa category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010

This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by family preferences. This positive selection is achieved by directly selecting higher skilled...

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Immigrants and workplace training : evidence from Canadian linked employer employee data

Dostie, Benoît; Javdani, Mohsen - 2019

however, they are mainly driven by differences that emerge within workplaces. We find no evidence that years spent in Canada …

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