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Computers, Fax Machines and Wages in Canada : What Really Matters?
Morissette, Rene - 1999
Controlling for observable worker attributes, we find that computer use is associated with a wage premium of at most 14%. Following Dinardo and Pischke (1997), we examine the wage premium associated with other tools used on the job. While these authors find a significant wage premium for the use...
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Will They Ever Converge? Earnings of Immigrants and Canadian-Born Workers Over the Last Two Decades
Frenette, Marc; Morissette, Rene - 2003
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...
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Workers Laid-Off During the Last Three Recessions : Who Were They, and How Did They Fare?
Chan, Winnie - 2011
Over the last three decades, Canada has experienced three recessions: one that started during the early 1980s; a second that began during the early 1990s; and the most recent one, which led to employment declines starting in October 2008. For each recession, this study: a) examines which workers...
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Wage Growth Over the Past 30 Years : Changing Wages by Age and Education
Morissette, Rene - 2012
from various Statistics Canada surveys and focuses on the real (hourly or weekly) wages earned by full-time workers. It is … changed over the past three decades. Wages are expressed in 2010 dollars. Since the early 1980s, real wages of various groups … changes, growth in international trade, institutional factors (e.g., de-unionization, changes in minimum wages, and changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104422
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Comment le risque de mise a pied et les pertes de revenu des travailleurs mis a pied ont-ils evolue depuis la fin des annees 1970 au Canada?
Qiu, Theresa; Chan, Winnie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2011
La presente etude porte sur la maniere dont le risque de perte d'emploi et les pertes de revenu a court terme des travailleurs mis a pied ont evolue entre la fin des annees 1970 et le milieu des annees 2000.
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How Have the Risk of Layoff and Earnings Losses of Laid-off Workers Evolved Since the Late 1970s in Canada?
Qiu, Theresa; Chan, Winnie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2011
This study examines how the risk of job loss and the short-term earnings losses of laid-off workers evolved between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s.
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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers with Stable Labour Market Attachment: Recent Evidence from Canada
Morissette, Rene; Bonikowska, Aneta - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012
This study examines long-term earnings losses of workers laid off during the early 1990s and the early 2000s using data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Worker File (LWF). In contrast to earlier studies, many of which focused on narrowly defined samples, this study compares earnings losses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897305
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Wages, Youth Employment, and School Enrollment: Recent Evidence from Increases in World Oil Prices
Lu, Yuqian; Chan, Winnie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
enrollment with respect to wages. …
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Evolution des salaires des Canadiens au cours des trois dernieres decennies
Picot, Garnett; Lu, Yuqian; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013
La presente etude examine comment les salaires des travailleurs canadiens ont evolue de 1981 a 2011, selon cinq dimensions : sexe, age, niveau de scolarite, industrie et profession.
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Salaires, emploi des jeunes et inscription dans un etablissement d'enseignement : donnees recentes liees aux augmentations des prix mondiaux du petrole
Lu, Yuqian; Chan, Winnie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
Les reserves de petrole du Canada sont concentrees dans trois provinces : l'Alberta, la Saskatchewan et Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Les prix du petrole qu'obtiennent les producteurs canadiens ont plus que double entre 2001 et 2008. La proportion de jeunes hommes ayant un emploi dans l'industrie du...
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