La deperdition des jeunes des collectivites rurales cause depuis un bon moment deja bien des inquietudes. On pense generalement que la plupart des collectivites rurales offrent peu de possibilites a leurs jeunes, ce qui les oblige a partir vers les villes, vraisemblablement pour toujours. Meme...

There has been for some time substantial concern regarding the loss of young people in rural communities. There is a sense that most rural communities offer few opportunities for their younger people, requiring them to leave for urban communities, most likely not to return. While there is a...

Cette etude vise a evaluer l'incidence de l'eloignement par rapport a l'etablissement d'enseignement sur la probabilite de s'inscrire a l'universite peu de temps apres l'obtention du diplome d'etudes secondaires. Les eleves du secondaire qui grandissent a proximite d'une universite peuvent...

Cette etude chercher a verifier si les tendances emergentes et celles deja bien visibles du marche du travail des annees 90 se sont inversees sous la pression de la robuste croissance economique de 1997-1999. Plus particulierement, elle analyse la montee spectaculaire du travail independant, les...

In this study, I use new Canadian data containing detailed information on academic abilities, parental influences, financial constraints, and other socio-economic background characteristics of youth to try to account for the large gap in university attendance across the income distribution. I...

The increase in earnings inequality among men in particular in Canada has been well documented. This paper adds to our knowledge of inequality trends by addressing three issues. First, what has happened to earnings inequality among the employed population in the 1990s? We find that earnings...

Our aim in this paper is to resolve a paradox. Since the 1970s, there has been a downward secular trend in the average real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in households headed by adults under 35, there has been no...

The upbringing of children is modeled as a modified principal agent problem in which children attempt to maximize their own well-being when faced with a parenting strategy chosen by the parent, to maximize parent's perception of family well-being. Thus, children as well as parents are players,...

La presente communication vise a expliquer un paradoxe. En effet, depuis les annees 70, on a enregistre une tendance generale a la baisse dans les gains reels et relatifs des jeunes adultes ages de moins de 35 ans. En depit du fait que la plupart des jeunes enfants vivent au sein de menages...

L'aide des donnees de trois reprises (1982, 1986 et 1990) de l'Enquete nationale aupres des diplomes (END), nous analyserons, a l'aide du modele des hasards proportionnels de Cox, le temps que prennent les diplomes des universites canadiennes a occuper un emploi a temps plein qui dure au moins...