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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper explores the fertility patterns of immigrant children to Canada using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian … Census from 1991 through 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, with a sharp rise for those immigrating in their … mechanism through which age at immigration affects fertility – fertility of immigrants with an official mother tongue also …
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Labour Market Matters - March 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
admission class fare relative to those arriving in other classes. A paper entitled “The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to … Waterloo) focuses on the fertility outcomes of migrants around the years immediately before and after migration. Using data … differences in fertility across origins that suggest that cultural differences matters. European, American and Asian immigrants …
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Marché du travail en revue - Mars 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
La mobilité des rémunérations des immigrants et l’expérience de leur progression sur le marché du travail canadien sont le reflet de l’état général des possibilités économiques au Canada. Des niveaux élevés ou en hausse de la mobilité croissante des revenus peuvent indiquer une...
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The Fertility of Recent Immigrant s to Canada
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184469
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Preparing for Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of immigrants (the 2nd generation) in Canada and the United States. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations (the children of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509637
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Seeking Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper reviews the recent research on labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and the United States (i.e., the 2nd generation), and its determinants. The paper focuses on outcome gaps between the 2nd and third-and-higher generations, as well as the intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468949
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479341
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Temporary Foreign Workers and Former International Students as a Source of Permanent Immigration
Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We compare the economic outcomes of former Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) and former international students to immigrants who have no Canadian human capital at the time of landing. First, controlling for all possible variables that are adjustable under the current Canadian points system, we...
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Performance Pay and the White-Black Wage Gap
Heywood, John S.; Parent, Daniel - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We show that the reported tendency for performance pay to be associated with greater wage inequality at the top of the earnings distribution applies only to white workers. This results in the white-black wage differential among those in performance pay jobs growing over the earnings distribution...
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Are the Labour Market Benefits to Schooling Different for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal People
Frenette, Marc - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
It is well documented that Aboriginal people generally have lower levels of educational attainment than other groups in Canada, but little is known about the reasons behind this gap. This study is the first of two by the same author investigating the issue in detail. This initial paper focuses...
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