Economic outcomes of former Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) and former international students (ISs) are compared to those of Skilled Worker Principal Applicants who have no Canadian experience at the time of landing. Controlling for only variables from the immigration points system, former TFWs...

Outdated, disjointed, and poorly resourced, the current structure of mental health services fails to meet the needs of Canadians. It is, in the words of Roy Romanow, the orphan child of Canadian healthcare. The urgent need for mental health reform is underlined by the Senate Standing Committee...

Earnings and employment differences across categories of the immigrant selection system are explored with links to the points system. Additionally, alternative approaches to analysis are discussed with respect to their relevance for different policy questions. Appreciable outcome gaps across...

This paper uses LAD panel data to investigate how variability of workers' earnings and earnings instability for Canada changed between 1982­89 and 1990­97. Following the methodology of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994), we decompose the total variation of workers' earnings into permanent variation...

We use a large sample of linked income tax records to estimate a competing risk model of the likelihood of an exit from lone motherhood to either a marital or common-law union. We find that recent Canadian welfare policy reforms have had only a small impact at most on the duration of lone...

This paper looks at the early careers of science and technology graduates in Canada using three waves of the National Graduates Surveys. Employment rates, earnings levels, job satisfaction, the job-education skill match, and the overall evaluation of the education program are studied in order to...

This paper uses the Statistics Canada Survey of Literacy Skills in Daily Use (LSUDA) to investigate minority- white income differences and the role cognitive skills play in those patterns. Some minority groups have substantially lower (tested) levels of literacy and numeracy skills than whites...

This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the early labour market outcomes of Canadian postsecondary graduates based on the National Graduates Surveys, representing those who finished their college or university programs in 1982, 1986, and 1990. The major findings include that...

For a decade or so starting in the early 1990s, Canada's major income support programs underwent substantial reform. Meanwhile, the economy first lingered in a deep recession and then recovered with a period of strong growth. This paper focuses on how the distributional impact of Employment...

Our focus is on the event of receipt of low-income support benefits amongst Canadians who are 65 or older. The outcome that we model empirically is the incidence rate for Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits. We estimate multivariate models to investigate the effects of age, cohort,...