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Labour supply and taxes: New estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages
Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - 2012
In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282396
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282633
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The intergenerational transmission of employers in Canada and Denmark
Bingley, Paul; Corak, Miles; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - 2011
Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278570
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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in … Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the …-sex-schooling-place of birth cohorts looking specifically at non-economic (family reunion and refugee intake) immigrants from Iran, Iraq …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289873
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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282285
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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2004
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261904
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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2004
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262035
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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2004
Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262137
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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2005
Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262189