The number of registered apprentices in Canada more than doubled between 1995 and 2007, yet successful completion of apprenticeship programs increased by only about one-third as much. Uncovering the factors related to low completion rates is a necessary first step to ensuring that today's...

The literature on divorce and labour supply generally analyzes standard labour supply measures such as annual hours worked. We include hours per day and days per week as two new dimensions of work time, and use a 3-year panel which allows us to address the effects of divorce on five time...

That immigrants in Canada on average earn lower wages than observationally equivalent Canadian-born individuals has been the subject of much research in recent years. The role of the public sector in this immigrant wage gap has been studied much less. We seek to add to the sparse literature on...