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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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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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The portability of new immigrants' human capital : language, education and occupational matching

Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - 2011

post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …

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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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The impact of placing adolescent males into foster care on their education, income assistance and incarcerations

Warburton, William P.; Warburton, Rebecca N.; Sweetman, … - 2011

Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. Yet, there is little research looking at these causal impacts; neither is there much empirical...

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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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Basic information and communication technology skills among Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants

Truong, N. T. Khuong; Sweetman, Arthur - 2018

Male immigrants are observed to be disproportionately employed in ICT information and communication technology (ICT) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document differences in skill levels and labour market earnings across immigration classes and categories...

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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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