This paper examines the long-term labour market premiums associated with completing a college certificate and a bachelor's degree, compared to completing a high school diploma. Several labour market outcomes of individuals are examined with longitudinal data over a 20-year period spanning their...

This study examines which factors underlie the narrowing of wage differences seen between young bachelor?s degree holders and high school graduates from the 2000-to-2002 period to the 2010-to-2012 period and the widening of differences in full-time paid employment rates between these two...

La presente etude porte sur les facteurs qui ont sous-tendu la diminution des ecarts salariaux entre les jeunes titulaires d?un baccalaureat et ceux titulaires d?un diplome d?etudes secondaires de la periode de 2000 a 2002 a celle de 2010 a 2012, ainsi que l?accroissement des differences de taux...

A l'aide des donnees de recensement de 1980 a 2000, on examine quelles seraient les conditions necessaires pour que les cohortes de nouveaux immigrants parviennent a la parite de gains avec les travailleurs nes au Canada. Selon les resultats, il faudrait que les gains des nouveaux immigrants...

Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee : L'incidence des frais de scolarite sur l'acces a l'universite : resultats de la vaste dereglementation des frais de scolarite des programmes professionnels.

Les jeunes femmes ont gagne enormement de terrain par rapport aux hommes du meme age en ce qui concerne le niveau de scolarite atteint dans les annees 1990. L'objectif de cette etude est d'evaluer le role que joue le niveau de scolarite, qui va rapidement en augmentant, des jeunes femmes quant a...

Dans la presente etude, on estime l'effet d'une annee supplementaire de scolarite (10e annee) sur le rendement scolaire, dans le dessein precis de comprendre le role de la scolarite dans la determination de l'ecart entre les sexes et de l'ecart de revenu sous l'angle du rendement scolaire. Pour...

Previous research suggests that high-school students living beyond commuting distance from a university are far less likely to attend, especially if they are from a lower-income family. This study asks three follow-up questions. First, do students who live too far to attend university 'make-up'...

Using Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Worker File, we document short-term and long-term earnings losses for a large (10%) sample of Canadian workers who lost their job through firm closures or mass layoffs during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Our use of a nationally representative sample allows...

Using census data covering the 1980 to 2000 period, we examine what outcomes would be necessary for cohorts of recent immigrants to achieve earnings parity with Canadian-born workers. Our results show that today's recent immigrants would have to experience a drastic rise of their relative...