are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …

use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using …, cognitive abilities seem to be more important in determining youths' educational attainment in the U.S. than in Canada. However … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit …

satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin …

, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what is happening to the incomes of others. An increase in the incomes …

find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating … that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are … marriage and life satisfaction, and find that well-being effects of marriage are about twice as large for those whose spouse is …