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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Unions and the Labor Market for Managers
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Hallock, Kevin F.; DiNardo, John - 2000
We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a … monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the … firm. Unions, by redistributing rents towards the workers, lead to lower employment and lower pay for managers. Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262364
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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272033
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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272933
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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009
incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273861
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261874
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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