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Wives, Mothers and Wages: Does Timing Matter?

Drolet, Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

concentrating on developing their careers. Using data from the 1998 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, this study provides …. After controlling for differences in work history, labour force qualifications and selected job characteristics, the cross …, related to human capital skills, differentiated work history or labour force attachment. Conforming to theoretical …

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Do the Falling Earnings of Immigrants Apply to Self-employed Immigrants?

Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

have fared progressively worse in the paid labour market compared with paid native-born workers. This is not the case in …

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The Entry and Exit Dynamics of Self-employment in Canada

Lin, Zhengxi; Picot, Garnett; Yates, Janice - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

and from self-employment; and iii) investigates the influence of individual characteristics and labour market experience …

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Product Market Competition and Agency Costs

Baggs, Jennifer; de Bettignies, Jean-Etienne - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

We model the effects of product market competition on agency costs, and develop two main empirical predictions. First, competition, by reducing agency costs, unambiguously increases the importance firms place on quality improvements. This leads to higher powered incentives, and in turn to...

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Why Do Children Move into and out of Low Income: Changing Labour Market Conditions or Marriage and Divorce

Zyblock, Miles; Picot, Garnett; Pyper, Wendy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

(2) changes in the parent's labour market conditions (i.e. job loss and gain, changes in hours of work or wages). We find … changes in jobs held by parents. However, changes in family status are relatively infrequent compared to labour market changes …

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Working More? Working Less? What Do Canadian Workers Prefer?

Drolet, Marie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1997

Faced with high unemployment rates, an unequal distribution of worktime, and shifts to temporary, part-time and contract employment, Canadian workers may prefer to change their work hours. Using data from the Survey of Work Arrangements of 1995, we find that two thirds of Canadian workers are...

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Les travailleurs du savoir dans l'economie canadienne, 1971 a 2001

Beckstead, Desmond; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

Ce document fournit une analyse de l'emergence de l'economie du savoir dans le contexte de l'importance croissante des professions a forte concentration de connaissances, pour la periode de 1971 a 2001.

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Repercussions du travail autonome sur la croissance de la productivite du travail : comparaison Canada-Etats-Unis

Baldwin, John R.; Chowhan, James - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

Dans ce document, on examine l'incidence du travail autonome sur la croissance de la productivite du travail dans le secteur des entreprises. En outre, on y compare la situation du Canada et des Etats-Unis dans ce domaine pour la periode de 1987 a 1998.

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Demande de competences au Canada : le role de l'impartition a l'etranger et de la technologie de l'information et des communications

Yan, Beiling - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

La presente etude evalue l'effet des technologies de l'information et des communications (TIC) et de l'impartition a l'etranger sur la demande de travailleurs tres qualifies. Le creusement de l'ecart salarial entre les travailleurs tres qualifies et ceux qui le sont peu a ete l'une des...

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Evolution de la duree et de la stabilite de l'emploi au Canada

Heisz, Andrew - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

Partant des donnees mensuelles de l'Enquete sur la population active du Canada, l'auteur examine de quelle facon la duree complete moyenne de l'emploi a change entre 1981 et 1994. Bien que la duree complete moyenne d'un nouvel emploi n'ait ni augmente, ni diminue au cours de cette periode, des...

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