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This study estimates the effect of an additional year of schooling (Grade 10) on academic performance, with the particular aim of understanding the role of schooling in shaping the gender and income divides in academic performance. To identify the returns to schooling, the study takes advantage...
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La presente etude comparative porte sur le role que jouent les antecedents familiaux dans l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires au Canada et aux Etats Unis. Etant donne que les etudes postsecondaires sont financees d'une facon tres differente dans l'un et l'autre pays, les antecedents familiaux...
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Dans cette etude, on utilise des donnees fiscales longitudinales pour examiner plusieurs aspects encore non decrits de la duree des periodes de residence dans un quartier a faible revenu. Bien que la longueur des nouvelles periodes de residence dans ces quartiers soit generalement importante (du...
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Dans la presente etude, nous nous servons de nouvelles donnees canadiennes detaillees sur les notes aux tests normalises, les notes scolaires, l'influence des parents et des pairs, ainsi que d'autres caracteristiques socioeconomiques de base des garcons et des filles pour essayer d'expliquer...
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De nombreuses etudes ont traite du succes relatif des hommes immigrants au sein de la main-d'oeuvre salariee. Meme s'ils representent environ le sixieme de la main-d'oeuvre immigrante, les travailleurs autonomes immigrants constituent un groupe relativement peu etudie. Les donnees de cette etude...
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Des etudes anterieures semblent indiquer que les eleves du secondaire qui ont a franchir plus que la distance de navettage pour se rendre a l'universite sont bien moins susceptibles de frequenter celle ci, surtout s'ils appartiennent a une famille a faible revenu. Cette etude repondra a trois...
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Young women have gained considerable ground on young men in terms of educational attainment in the 1990s. The objective of this study is to assess the role of rapidly rising educational attainment among young women in raising their relative position in the labour market. The findings suggest...
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This study assesses how geographic distance between home and school affects the probability of attending university shortly after high school graduation. Students that grow up near a university can save on costs by staying home to attend the local university and thus may be more likely to...
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The high-tech sector was a major driving force behind the Canadian economic recovery of the late 1990s. It is well known that the tide began to turn quite suddenly in 2001 when sector-wide employment and earnings halted this upward trend, despite continued gains in the rest of the economy. As...
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This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: The impact of tuition fees on university access: Evidence from a large-scale price deregulation in professional programs.
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