This paper examines the long-term labour market premiums associated with completing a college certificate and a bachelor's degree, compared to completing a high school diploma. Several labour market outcomes of individuals are examined with longitudinal data over a 20-year period spanning their...

This study examines which factors underlie the narrowing of wage differences seen between young bachelor?s degree holders and high school graduates from the 2000-to-2002 period to the 2010-to-2012 period and the widening of differences in full-time paid employment rates between these two...

La presente etude porte sur les avantages a long terme sur le marche du travail que conferent un certificat d'etudes collegiales et un baccalaureat, comparativement a un diplome d'etudes secondaires. Plusieurs resultats de personnes sur le marche du travail sont examines a partir de donnees...

La presente etude porte sur les facteurs qui ont sous-tendu la diminution des ecarts salariaux entre les jeunes titulaires d?un baccalaureat et ceux titulaires d?un diplome d?etudes secondaires de la periode de 2000 a 2002 a celle de 2010 a 2012, ainsi que l?accroissement des differences de taux...

De nombreuses etudes ont traite du succes relatif des hommes immigrants au sein de la main-d'oeuvre salariee. Meme s'ils representent environ le sixieme de la main-d'oeuvre immigrante, les travailleurs autonomes immigrants constituent un groupe relativement peu etudie. Les donnees de cette etude...

The high-tech sector was a major driving force behind the Canadian economic recovery of the late 1990s. It is well known that the tide began to turn quite suddenly in 2001 when sector-wide employment and earnings halted this upward trend, despite continued gains in the rest of the economy. As...

Le secteur de la technologie de pointe a ete l'une des principales sources de la reprise economique au Canada a la fin des annees 1990. Il est bien connu que le vent a tourne soudainement en 2001, lorsque la tendance ascendante de l'emploi et des gains dans ce secteur s'est brusquement...

Many studies have examined the relative success of immigrant men in the (primarily paid) workforce. Despite the fact that they represent approximately one-sixth of the immigrant workforce, self-employed immigrants are a relatively understudied group. This study uses the 1981, 1986, 1991, and...

Au cours des trois dernieres decennies, le Canada a connu trois recessions : une premiere qui a commence au debut des annees 1980; une deuxieme, au debut des annees 1990; et la plus recente, qui a entraine des baisses de l'emploi a partir d'octobre 2008. Pour chacune de ces recessions, la presente etude...

Over the last three decades, Canada has experienced three recessions: one that started during the early 1980s; a second that began during the early 1990s; and the most recent one, which led to employment declines starting in October 2008. For each recession, this study: a) examines which workers...