This paper uses a probit regression model to investigate the factors that determine shifts to English as home language in families of French Canadian, Italian, German and Ukrainian origins living in Canada outside Quebec. It is found that, except for marriage outside the language community,...

There exists a perception of economic inequalities among generations and more precisely that today’s younger generations are facing worse economic conditions than those who preceded them. In this paper, this hypothesis is tested for men and women in Canada. By pooling micro-data from the...

This paper studies the earnings of married women by language group in Quebec in 1980. In order to account for the particular aspects of the female labour market, the specification of the model includes variables related to marriage, children and selection bias due to labour force participation....

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of immigration on the market of some disadvantaged groups of Canadian workers, i.e., women, younger workers, and workers with low levels of schooling. The analysis is done with the micro-data from the 1981 and 1986 Canadian Censuses. Based on...

This paper studies earnings disparities by language group for males in the Ottawa-Hull region using data from the 1981 census. After in a first stage making comparisons of mean earnings, the study then proceeds with regression analysis. The dependent variable is the logarithm of earnings in 1980...