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Availability of family-friendly work practices and implicit wage costs : new evidence from Canada
Fakih, Ali - 2014
Using Canadian linked employer-employee data covering the period 1999-2005, I examine the determinants of the availability of family-friendly "care" practices and the impact of such practices on wages. The results show that the provision of family-friendly practices is not mainly derived from...
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The effects of work-life benefits on employment outcomes in Canada : a multivariate analysis
Fang, Tony; Lee, Byron; Timming, Andrew R.; Fan, Di - 2019
Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of …
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Voluntary job separations and traditional versus flexible workplace saving plans : evidence from Canada
Fang, Tony; Messacar, Derek - 2019
This paper provides new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace saving plan (a "traditional" registered pension plan or RPP, a "flexible" group registered retirement savings plan or group RRSP, and a "hybrid" arrangement of the two) affects employee...
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The minimum wage, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution
Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - 2023
This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...
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Social ties and the job search of recent immigrants
Goel, Deepti; Lang, Kevin - 2016
verify this result for recent immigrants to Canada for whom a strong network is captured by the presence of a 'close tie …
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Immigrant employment and earnings growth in Canada and the US : evidence from longitudinal data
Kaushal, Neeraj; Lu, Yao; Denier, Nicole; Wang, Julia … - 2015
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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Contractual employment protection and the scarring risk of unemployment
Jahn, Elke J. (contributor); Wagner, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment protection (CEP) in form of guaranteed employment (GEC) or severance pay contracts (SPC). A GEC fully eliminates both the income risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC...
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High performance workplaces and family friendly practices : promises made and promises kept
Heywood, John S. (contributor);  … - 2005
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible with family friendly work practices. We present new evidence on the association using perceptions of a...
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Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model
Yashiv, Eran (contributor) - 2006
Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to some significant failures in accounting for the data. This paper aims to answer two questions: (i) Does the model fit the...
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Earnings-related severance pay
Goerke, Laszlo - 2006
In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that earnings-related, mandated severance pay will have ambiguous employment effects if effort can be varied...
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