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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … in Canada on earnings. …
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. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain. …
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We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that …
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and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …
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This study uses data from the Follow-up of Graduates Survey - Class of 2000, to look at the determinants of education-job match among Canadian university graduates. From a public policy perspective, the question of education-job match is relevant given the substantial investment society puts...
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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. …
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The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
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by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
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