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Returns to Talent and the Finance Wage Premium
Celerier, Claire - 2019
To study the role of talent in finance workers' pay, we exploit a special feature of the French higher education system. Wage returns to talent have been significantly higher and have risen faster since the 1980s in finance than in other sectors. Both wage returns to project size and the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357343
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The effects of work-life benefits on employment outcomes in Canada : a multivariate analysis
Fang, Tony; Lee, Byron; Timming, Andrew R.; Fan, Di - 2019
Using the longitudinal Workplace and Employee Survey of Canada, we examine the association between the provision of …
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The minimum wage, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution
Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - 2023
This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...
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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...
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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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Language and Wage Determination in a Segmented Urban Labor Market : Evidence from Canada
Li, Qiang - 2014
urban labor submarkets. Utilizing the reported work language in the 2001 Census of Canada Public Use Microdata File on …
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Canadian Wage Inequality Over the Last Two Decades
Burbidge, John B.; Magee, Lonnie; Robb, A. Leslie - 1998
We study the dispersion of wages of full-year workers over two decades controlling for both education and experience. Applying non-parametric statistical methods we find statistically significant and large increases in inequality for males with low levels of education and experience coexist with...
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Certification, Completion, and Wages of Canadian Registered Apprentices
Laporte, Christine; Mueller, Richard - 2013
Using the 2007 National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS), this research paper estimates the earnings functions of individuals who completed or discontinued a registered apprenticeship program. Controlling for observed demographic, labour market, and employer characteristics correlated with the two...
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The Main Culprit behind Immigrant Wage Gaps in Canada : Lower Returns to Foreign Schooling or Work Experience?
Dean, Jason - 2013
Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) I examine how immigrants’ foreign human capital is rewarded in the labour market. I exploit the enhanced details on education attainment, provided in the SLID, to decompose human capital variables into foreign and Canadian measures that are...
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