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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options
Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184431
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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509227
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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation: A Micro-Level Analysis
Söllner, Rene - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509664
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Marché du travail en revue - Janvier 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
En Amérique du Nord, les étudiants dont les parents ont émigré obtiennent en général un meilleur niveau d’études que ceux dont les parents sont nés au Canada. En Europe, on constate l’inverse. Au Canada, les étudiants de parents immigrants (de 1re ou de 2e génération) suivent des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184383
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Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada: An Interprovincial Perspective
Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2015
This paper uses the Canadian Labour Force Survey to understand why the level and dispersion of wages have evolved differently across provinces from 1997 to 2013. The starker interprovincial differences are the much faster increase in the level of wages and decline in wage dispersion in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184395
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Why Immigrant Background Matters for University Participation: A Comparison of Switzerland and Canada
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
This paper extends our understanding of the difference in university participation between students with and without immigrant backgrounds by contrasting outcomes in Switzerland and Canada, and by the use of new longitudinal data that are comparable between the countries. The research includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184442
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Labour Market Matters - January 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
In North America, students with immigrant parents typically achieve higher levels of education than their counterparts with domestic-born parents. In Europe however, the opposite is typically true. In Canada, immigrants students (1st or 2nd generation) are 1.6 times as likely to attend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184445
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Are the Labour Market Benefits to Schooling Different for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People
Frenette, Marc - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
It is well documented that Aboriginal people generally have lower levels of educational attainment than other groups in Canada, but little is known about the reasons behind this gap. This study is the first of two by the same author investigating the issue in detail. This initial paper focuses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189371
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Experimental Estimates of the Impacts of Class Size on Test Scores: Robustness and Heterogeneity
Ding, Weili; Lehrer, Steven F. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Proponents of class size reductions draw heavily on the results from Project STAR to support their initiatives. Adding to the political appeal of these initiative are reports that minority and economically disadvantaged students received the largest benefits from smaller classes. We extend this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191054
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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511324