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Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada …
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and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …
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by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
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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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how the magnitude of the estimated elasticities varies depending on whether net or gross wages and income are used in the … changes in their own or spouses' wages. …
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quantify the effects of English-speaking ability on wages. We find that being fluent in English (compared to not speaking any … English) increases hourly wages of men by 34%, which is as much as the return to completing secondary school and half as much … wages 13%. There is considerable heterogeneity in returns to English. More experienced and more educated workers receive …
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Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …
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seems to be associated with education decisions. College graduates arriving to Canada anytime before adulthood behave as …
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immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 …
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Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...
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