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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...
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We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to …
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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...
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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...
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Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …
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Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … in Canada on earnings. …
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. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …
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We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …
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and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
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