-point shift and index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National Population Health Survey data. The McMaster Health … Utility Index (HUI) is used as a more objective health measure than the simple 5-point scale of self-assessed health. We find … clear evidence of index shifting and cut-point shifting for age and gender, but not for income, education or language. …

Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …

Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …

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. …

. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …

We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …