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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 … richest exhibit a strikingly similar pattern, falling in the three decades after World War II, before rising sharply from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Determinants of historic and cultural landmark designation: why we preserve what we preserve
Noonan, Douglas S.; Krupka, Douglas J. - 2008
There is much interest among cultural economists in assessing the effects of heritage preservation policies. There has been less interest in modeling the policy choices made in historic and cultural landmark preservation. This paper builds an economic model of a landmark designation that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274536
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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
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262796
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The gender pay gap for private sector employees in Canada and Britain
Drolet, Marie; Mumford, Karen - 2009
. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269161
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The evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269445