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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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Estimating labor supply responses and welfare participation : using a natural experiment to validate a structural labor supply model

Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011

In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. Budget sets for each work-welfare combination - accounting for income taxes, tax credits and welfare...

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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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A structural model of educational attainment in Canada

Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2013

In this paper, we develop and estimate a structural, dynamic model of schooling decisions using data extracted from the Canadian Youth in Transition Survey (YITS). The model incorporates forward-looking behavior and expectations about future benefits from investing in education. The results...

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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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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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Educational attainment of second-generation immigrants : a US-Canada comparison

Liu, Xingfei - 2014

use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using …, cognitive abilities seem to be more important in determining youths' educational attainment in the U.S. than in Canada. However … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit …

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