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A Competing Risks Analysis of the Determinants of Low Completion Rates in the Canadian Apprenticeship System
Dostie, Benoit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we estimate the determinants of low (and slow) completion rates with a competing risk duration model using data from the National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) 2007. This allows us to distinguish the impact age and duration dependence on the probability of dropping out. We find...
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The Neighborhood or the Region? Untangling the density-productivity relationship using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
I analyze the effects of sub-city level density of economic activity on worker productivity. Using a geocoded dataset on employment and wages in the city areas of Sweden, the analysis is based on squares representing “neighborhoods” (0.0625 km2), “districts” (1 km2), and...
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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada’s Evolving Approach to Immigration Selection
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184404
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
While not speaking either English or French is widely understood to be a serious barrier to employment and gainful remuneration in Canada, a study entitled “The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 144) by Alicia...
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Labour Market Matters - September 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
system for skilled workers to respond to changing labour market needs associated with the rise of a more knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184461
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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies: Experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project (‘SSP’) was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the...
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Immigrant Wage Assimilation and the Return to Foreign and Host-Country Sources of Human Capital
Skuterud, Mikal; Su, Mingcui - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We compare predicted relative immigrant wage profiles based on returns to YSM and to foreign and host-country sources of schooling and experience. We find the biases inherent in inferring assimilation from a return to YSM appear more substantial than those emanating from the assumptions...
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EFFECTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL ON THE GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF SWEDISH BUSINESSES
Backman, Mikaela; Gabe, Todd; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
This paper examines the effects of human capital on the growth and survival of a large sample of Swedish businesses. Human capital is represented by conventional measures of the educational attainment and experience of an establishment’s workers, and skills-based measures of the types of...
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Internal and External Knowledge Sources of New Export Products
Johansson, Börje; Warda, Peter - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
This study examines how firms’ internal and external knowledge sources affect the introduction of new export products …’ export performance is influenced by internal knowledge, and the knowledge potential in the local and regional environment. In … the present study the knowledge milieu of the exporting firm is the local and regional knowledge potential that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739969
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Scale and Scope - human capital and the structure of regional export flows
Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Sara - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity …
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