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Socioeconomic gradient literacy and numeracy skills of 15-year-olds across Canadian provinces and years using the PISA surveys (2000-2012)
Lefebvre, Pierre - 2016
performers for each domain assessed (reading, math and science). Canada is unique by the very large size of students' samples … over the entire achievement distribution (SES gaps over nine deciles) for Canada and across provinces. The third research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152887
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The Impact of Hours of Work on Employment-Based Health Benefits
Fronstin, Paul - 2006
This paper examines changes in the distribution of workers by hours of work and the resulting impact on employment-based health benefits. The percentage of workers in the labor force employed either full time or part time tends to vary with the strength of the economy, and for various other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058457
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How much it pays to work in the financial sector
Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Radulescu, Doina - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 58 (2012) 1, pp. 110-139
This article sheds light on the extent of managerial pay in the OECD. It uses a novel database on managerial wages and other types of compensation to compare managerial remuneration across different sectors, especially, the financial sector, and across countries. We find evidence of a...
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Is Governance Related to Investment Performance and Asset Allocation? Empirical Evidence from Swiss Pension Funds
Ammann, Manuel - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between governance, investment performance and asset allocation of pension funds in Switzerland. Our sample includes survey data from 139 Swiss occupational pension plans for which we develop a governance metric comprising attributes of organisational...
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What Determines the Allocation of Managerial Ownership within Firms? Evidence from Investment Management Firms
Dimmock, Stephen G. - 2017
We show that the allocation of managerial ownership to individuals within firms varies depending upon the joint distribution of decision control and decision management rights. Using a unique dataset of institutional investment management firms, we show that ownership is higher for managers:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976387
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Availability of family-friendly work practices and implicit wage costs : new evidence from Canada
Fakih, Ali - 2014
Using Canadian linked employer-employee data covering the period 1999-2005, I examine the determinants of the availability of family-friendly "care" practices and the impact of such practices on wages. The results show that the provision of family-friendly practices is not mainly derived from...
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How’s the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace
Helliwell, John F. - 2010
The authors first investigate how income and job characteristics affect life satisfaction, then estimate compensating differentials for non-financial job characteristics. To address potential problems with using life satisfaction data as dependent variables, they draw on three Canadian surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141542
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S : Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2015
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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Heterogenous life expectancy, adverse selection, and retirement behaviour
Heidler, Matthias; Raffelhüschen, Bernd; Leifels, Arne - 2006
This article surveys the literature on selection effects in retirement behavior. More specifically, we consider early retirement schemes with actuarially fair adjustments based on average life expectancy. To this end, we recapitulate the theoretical literature on selection effects and resulting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003977067
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What do unions do to pension performance?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2010
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension assets to promote union goals will vary with the design of the pension. Using panel data on over...
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