Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 721
Cover Image
Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278388
Cover Image
The immigration triangle: Quebec, Canada and the rest of the world
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2007
this acquired human capital in the niche area (Quebec) or the rest of Canada (ROC). The individual move stay-decision in … migration decision for both the foreign-born and Canadian-born populations in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267886
Cover Image
Physicians' multitasking and incentives: empirical evidence from a natural experiment
Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - 2007
Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, combining a fixed per diem with a discounted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276670
Cover Image
Les inégalités provinciales aux tests internationaux-nationaux de littéracie: Québec, Ontario et autres provinces canadiennes 2000-2018
Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - 2020
This paper presents standardised test scores results in literacy from 19 provincial and international surveys in education conducted over years 2000 to 2018. The analysis draws on students in provinces, mainly Québec and Ontario, at three stages of education, grade 4 in primary school, grade 8...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418396
Cover Image
The biocultural origins of human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc - 2014
This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526705
Cover Image
Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292150
Cover Image
The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates
Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - 2004
current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295656
Cover Image
Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?
Picot, Garnett; Sweetman, Arthur - 2011
Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331375
Cover Image
The Evolution of Male-Female Wages Differentials in Canadian Universities: 1970-2001
Warman, Casey; Woolley, Frances; Worswick, Christopher - 2006
universities over the period 1970 through 2001. The individual level data are collected by Statistics Canada from all universities … in Canada and are used to analyze the evolution of male-female wage differentials of professors in Canadian universities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940713
Cover Image
You Can Take it with You! The Returns to Foreign Human Capital of Male Temporary Foreign Workers
Warman, Casey - 2007
The research on immigration has found falling labor market outcomes of immigrants in many Western countries. In Canada … foreign work experience for recent immigrant cohorts and now composes the majority of Canada's immigration. It is likely that … enter Canada under. While immigrants for the most part are selected by the government, the selection process for temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940739