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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 …

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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …

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Family income and participation in post-secondary education

Corak, Miles; Lipps, Garth; Zhao, John - 2004

which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two …

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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Corak, Miles; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2000

Canadian and Swedish men. It is found that parental use of UI shortens the time to a first UI claim in Canada, but not in …

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Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: The role of class size and time-in-term

Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - 2010

PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of 'class size' and …

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The intergenerational transmission of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2006

immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

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Intergenerational education mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2008

We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is...

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The intergenerational transmission of employers in Canada and Denmark

Bingley, Paul; Corak, Miles; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - 2011

Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …

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