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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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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...

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Post-secondary education in Canada : can ability bias explain the earnings gap between college and university graduates?

Caponi, Vincenzo (contributor); Plesca, Miana (contributor) - 2007

Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...

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Minorities, social capital and voting

Bevelander, Pieter (contributor); Pendakur, Ravi (contributor) - 2007

goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada …

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Real and nominal wage rigidities in collective bargaining agreements

Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor); … - 2007

An earlier study of wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector between 1976-99, found that wage adjustment is characterized by downward nominal rigidity and significant spikes at zero. We extend this earlier approach to encompass the possibility of real as well as nominal wage...

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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...

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The economics of Prozac : do employees really gain from strong employment protection?

Wasmer, Etienne (contributor) - 2006

Unlike many other contracts, employment contracts are subject to various external administrative procedures governing separations, ranging from compulsory severance payments and advance notice periods (usually seniority based), to collective layoff procedures (usually depending on the firm's...

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The changing face of Chinese immigrants in Canada

Guo, Shibao (contributor); DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that … recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer …. Immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan shared more commonalities than with those from Mainland China. Given Canada’s time dependent …

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Gift exchange within a firm : evidence from a field experiment

Bellemare, Charles (contributor); … - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...

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