The 1989 Labour Market Activity Survey (LMAS) is used to examine the wage implications of membership in groups distinguished by gender and visible minority status. White men, minority men, white women and minority women earn an average hourly wage of $14.73, $12.48, $11.33 and $10.97,...

Canada is a country with two official languages, French and English. The need for both languages in Quebec and the Rest-of-Canada (ROC) generates a demand for bilingualism and investment in the acquisition of a second official language. Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with...

In this paper, bivariate probit estimation procedures and nonindependent selectivity adjustments are employed to investigate the determinants of the joint welfare participation-labor supply decisions made by single males, single females, lone fathers, and lone mothers, using data from the...

In a country with two official languages, such as Canada, the demand for bilingualism may lead individuals born with one mother tongue to acquire the second official language. Knowledge of an additional official language may be associated with enhanced earnings for two reasons; its actual value...

Knowledge of an additional language may be associated with enhanced earnings because of its actual value in the workplace, or its value as a screen for ability. Previously available data did not indicate whether bilingualism was actually practiced. The 2001 Census reports, for the first time,...

Using extensive Canadian longitudinal data from the years 1969-71, the authors estimate union-nonunion wage differentials of 12-14% for 1969 and 13-16% for 1970. These estimates are not adjusted for selectivity because three different tests to identify selectivity yield no evidence of...

Examines the impact of trade unions on money wages in Canada from 1953 to 1970. Flaws of the Hines model; Overview of the bargaining theory of wage determination; How strike decisions are made by unions; Prospective properties of equations. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)