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-processing skills, educational attainment and labour market outcomes among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Similar to previous literature … surprisingly, there is a positive relationship between these information-processing skills and wages. However, the returns to … skills are very similar for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, that is, we find no evidence of economic discrimination …
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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …-education, occupational downgrading, and (self-reported) use of skills for male immigrants, who account for about 75% of the sample, while …
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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
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This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions—members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy—are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in...
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German Socio-Economic Panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers' satisfaction...
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This paper discusses recent policy trends in Canada, the changing role of the various actors in the system, international comparisons and a range of other social policy topics. The immediate purpose of the paper is to examine the reasons why social policy analysts need to look to the future and...
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We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...
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) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document differences in skill levels and labour market … points system, are found to have lower average ICT scores than Canadians at birth, although the rate of return to ICT skills …
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consider how parental valuation of education, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills influence endogenous schooling … decisions and subsequent labour market outcomes in Canada. We find the effect of cognitive skills on adult incomes arises by … increasing the likelihood of obtaining further education. Further, we find that both non-cognitive skills and parental valuation …
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immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …
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