The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...

French Abstract: L'assimilation des immigrants dans la recherche d'emploi au Canada. L'assimilation des immigrants est un enjeu majeur dans plusieurs pays. Alors que le gros de la littérature spécialisée sur l'assimilation étudie le phénomène à l'aide d'un cadre d'analyse du capital...

The basic canonical model fails to predict the aggregate college premium outside of the original sample period (1963-1987) or to account for the observed deviations in college premia for younger vs. older workers. This paper documents that these failings are due to mis-measurement of the...

This paper asks how and why the transition rates for males between non-employment, paid employment, own-account self-employment, and self-employment with paid help changed in Canada between the 1990s and the 2000s. It is found that the self-employed were much less likely to move back into paid...