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Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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Unions and wage inequality : the roles of gender, skill and public sector employment

Card, David E.; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, William Craig - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …

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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of social costs of take-up among immigrants

Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up tends to increase during recessions. We exploit variation across immigrant groups in the non-pecuniary costs of participating in SSDI to examine the role that costs play in applicant decisions across the business cycle. We show that immigrants...

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Is there a tradeoff between ethnic diversity and redistribution? : the case of income assistance in Canada

Green, David A.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019

impacts on public opinion are important enough to influence policy is unclear. Many scholars argue that Canada is an exception … dramatic growth in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Canada's immigrant inflows in recent decades, but the extent of this … case the estimated effects are small. Our study thus supports the view that Canada's experience stands as an example in …

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Basic information and communication technology skills among Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants

Truong, N. T. Khuong; Sweetman, Arthur - 2018

Male immigrants are observed to be disproportionately employed in ICT information and communication technology (ICT) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document differences in skill levels and labour market earnings across immigration classes and categories...

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Canadian immigration experience : any lessons for Europe?

DeVoretz, Don J.; Laryea, Samuel A. - 1999

This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of … well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are discussed. The advantages of Canada's equal share rule of the allocation …

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A theory of social forces and immigrant second language acquisition

DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000

by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …

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Unemployment insurance and subsequent job duration : job matching vs unobserved heterogeneity

Belzil, Christian - 2000

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved heterogeneity. I allow maximum benefit duration to be correlated with unemployment duration as well as...

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Immigration policy and the skills of immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Canada. …

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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