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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada

Boudarbat, Brahim - 2004

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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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Do employees profit from profit sharing? Evidence from Canadian panel data

Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - 2012

Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, this paper examines whether employee earnings increase, decrease, or do not change in the period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing, relative to establishments that do not adopt profit sharing. Our research contributes to...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...

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The Recent Economic Performance of Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada and the U.S.

Pivnenko, Sergiy; DeVoretz, Don J. - 2003

This paper explores the relative success of ethnic and immigrant Ukrainians in Canada and in the United States. We … Ukrainian immigrants in Canada. Ukrainian immigrants to the U.S. are overachievers relative to all groups, which sheds light on … Borjas thesis that self-selection and not immigration policy sorts immigrants between Canada and the U.S. …

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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2004

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...

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