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Source-country Female Labour Force Participation and the Wages of Immigrant Women in Canada

Frank, Kristyn; Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015

Previous studies have found a strong association between source-country female labour force participation rates and immigrant women?s labour force participation in the host country. This relationship is interpreted as the enduring influence of source-country gender-role attitudes on immigrant...

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L?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et les salaires des immigrantes au Canada

Frank, Kristyn; Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015

Des etudes anterieures ont revele une forte association entre le taux d?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et l?activite des immigrantes dans le pays hote. Cette relation est interpretee comme le resultat de l?influence persistante des attitudes a l?egard des roles sexospecifiques dans le...

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Immigration, Low Income and Income Inequality in Canada: What?s New in the 2000s?

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014

During the 1980s and 1990s, immigration was associated with the rise in low-income rates and family-income inequality … focuses on the direct effect of immigration on the change in low income and family-income inequality over the 1995-to-2010 … period. The paper outlines recent trends in low-income rates and income inequality for both the Canadian-born and immigrants …

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Immigration, faible revenu et inegalite des revenus au Canada : Quoi de neuf durant les annees 2000?

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014

Au cours des annees 1980 et des annees 1990, l?immigration etait associee a la hausse des taux de faible revenu et de l?inegalite des revenus familiaux au Canada. Durant les annees 2000, le marche du travail et le processus de selection des immigrants ont fait l?objet de changements importants....

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Neighbourhood Inequality, Relative Deprivation and Self-perceived Health Status

Hou, Feng; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This study examines the relationship between individuals' health status and the socio-economic composition of the neighbourhoods in which they live. It combines individual microdata from Statistics Canada's 1996-97 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) with neighbourhood-level characteristics...

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Changes in the Regional Distribution of New Immigrants to Canada

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Bonikowska, Aneta - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015

Canada and the United States have recently experienced an increase in the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs), as well as...

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Changements dans la repartition regionale des nouveaux immigrants au Canada

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Bonikowska, Aneta - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015

Tant au Canada qu?aux Etats-Unis, on a constate recemment un accroissement de la dispersion regionale des nouveaux immigrants. Selon des etudes menees aux Etats-Unis, une combinaison de facteurs economiques ayant un effet d?eloignement (des Etats tels que la Californie) et de facteurs ayant un...

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Qui poursuit des etudes superieures? L'incidence directe et indirecte des antecedents familiaux sur l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires

Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross; Sweetman, Arthur - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

equitable et efficace aux etudes postsecondaires. Ces resultats sont fondes sur deux mesures de l'acces a l'education selon le …

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Antecedents familiaux et acces aux etudes postsecondaires : que s'est-il passe pendant les annees 1990?

Laporte, Christine; Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...

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Participation in Post-secondary Education in Canada: Has the Role of Parental Income and Education Changed over the 1990s?

Drolet, Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long … account of both parental education and parental income, university participation rates are more strongly associated with … parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data …

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