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Fulfilling potential, creating success : perspectives on human capital development
Picot, Garnett (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480631
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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 … how real wages of Canadian workers evolved across age groups and education levels from 1981 to 2011 …This article in the Economic Insights series examines two questions: (1) Which groups of Canadian workers have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104422
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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442319
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388854
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Introduction: integrating diverse perspectives on human capital development
Picot, Garnett; Saunders, Ron; Sweetman, Arthur - In: Fulfilling potential, creating success : perspectives …, (pp. 1-11). 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571005
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Which human capital characteristics best predict the earnings of economic immigrants?
Bonikowska, Aneta; Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379672
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The human capital model of selection and the long-run economic outcomes of immigrants
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng; Qui, Theresa - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370347
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Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s
Heisz, Andrew; Jackson, Andrew; Picot, Garnett - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481815
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Do highly educated immigrants perform differently in the Canadian and US labour markets?
Bonikowska, Aneta; Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008903429
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Immigrant earnings growth : selection bias or real progress?
Picot, Garnett; Piraino, Patrizio - 2012
This paper studies the effect of selective attrition on estimates of immigrant earnings growth based on repeated cross …-sectional data in Canada. Recent evidence from longitudinal data in the United States shows that the earnings gap between immigrants … immigrant earnings and the immigrant-Canadian-born earnings gap. The results are compared with those from repeated cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570589