This paper exploits the extremely rich Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) data to investigate access to post‐secondary education (PSE) among the children of immigrants in Canada. The YITS respondents considered to be the children of immigrants in this paper include: i) those who came to this...

This research exploits the uniquely rich Youth in Transition Survey to investigate access to post-secondary education (PSE) among the children of Canadian immigrants, including both (i) those who came to this country as immigrants themselves by age 15, and (ii) those who were born in Canada to...

This paper exploits the longitudinal Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A (YITSA) to investigate access and barriers to post-secondary education (PSE) in Canada. The paper first looks at how access by age 21 is related to family background characteristics, including family income and parental...

The OECD (2012) recently noted that post-secondary education (PSE) participation rates in Canada will need to continue to expand as the population ages and as the needs of the knowledge-based economy increase. With many groups already participating at high rates, much of this expansion will have...