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What accounts for the US-Canada education-premium difference?
Kryvtsov, Oleksiy (contributor);  … - 2009
education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003804312
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Driving forces of the Canadian economy : an accounting exercise
Cociuba, Simona E. (contributor);  … - 2008
productivity observed in the Canadian economy. The paper performs a decomposition of the labor factor for Canada and the United … distortions. Moreover, the milder reduction in the labor market distortions observed in Canada, compared to the US, is due to a … relative increase in effective labor taxes in Canada. -- Labour markets ; Potential output ; Productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003711689
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Wage dynamics and returns to unobserved skill
Lochner, Lance; Park, Youngmin; Shin, Youngki - 2017
Economists disagree about the factors driving the substantial increase in residual wage inequality in the U.S. over the past few decades. We identify and estimate a general model of log wage residuals that incorporates: (i) changing returns to unobserved skills, (ii) a changing distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777789
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Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms
Bowlus, Audra J.; Gouin-Bonenfant, Émilien; Liu, Huju; … - 2021 - Last updated: April 28, 2021
This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax … declining gender gap), Canada experienced relatively modest changes in overall earnings inequality, volatility, and mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507206
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Child skill production : accounting for parental and market-based time and goods investments
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Lochner, Lance; Mullins, Joseph; … - 2020 - Last updated: September 11, 2020
This paper studies the multidimensional nature of investments in children within a dynamic framework. In particular, we examine the roles of parental time investments, purchased home goods/services inputs, and market-based child care services. We first document strong increases in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271679
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Heterogeneous returns to U.S. college selectivity and the value of graduate degree attainment
Seki, Mai - 2013
Existing studies on the returns to college selectivity have mixed results, mainly due to the difficulty of controlling for selection into more-selective colleges based on unobserved ability. Moreover, researchers have not considered graduate degree attainment in the analysis of labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223487
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Expansion of higher education, employment and wages : evidence from the Russian transition
Kyui, Natalia - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of an educational system expansion on labour market outcomes, drawing upon a 15-year natural experiment in the Russian Federation. Regional increases in student intake capacities in Russian universities, a result of educational reforms, provide a plausibly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221414
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Fixed-term and permanent employment contracts : theory and evidence
Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2011
and firing rules. Using matched employer-employee data from Canada, we estimate the model's parameters. Increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309460
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Capital structure, pay structure and job termination
Allen, Jason; Thompson, James R. - 2016
We develop a model to analyze the link between financial leverage, worker pay structure and the risk of job termination. Contrary to the conventional view, we show that even in the absence of any agency problem among workers, variable pay can be optimal despite workers being risk averse and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443303
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Electronic transactions as high-frequency indicators of economic activity
Galbraith, John W. (contributor); Tkacz, Greg (contributor) - 2007
are correlated with Statistics Canada's revisions to GDP; (iv) high-frequency analyses of transactions around extreme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641311