Given the declining returns to pre-migration labour market experience, human capital
portability is explored for new immigrants focusing on pre- and post-immigration occupational …

A correlation between age at immigration and earnings is observed in Canadian census data.
The evidence supports three underlying sources of the effect; first, work experience in the …

… Arthur Sweetman is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Victoria, British
… beginning June 2000 through May 2003 from Arthur Sweetman (sweetman@uvic.ca), or from …

Background Medical laboratory tests ordered redundantly represent one of the targets for
reducing diagnostic testing without negatively, and possibly positively, affecting patient care. …

Six microcredit organizations of 19th-century Europe are compared to identify what institutional
designs were conducive to success and sustainability. Organizations that depended on …

This paper reviews the increase in the earnings gap between immigrants and Canadian-born
over the past two decades, and the current explanations of this labour market deterioration …

Ireland’s loan funds were a long-lived, self-sustaining, large-scale microfinance organization
that made millions of loans, without collateral, to the poor. During the first 100 years of their …

Poverty (low income) dynamics are explored using tax filer data covering the period 1992 to
1996. The distributions of short‐ and long‐term episodes are identified and reveal …

This research finds that family background (parental education level, family type, ethnicity,
location) has important direct and indirect effects on post-secondary participation. The indirect …

Immigrants from source countries with lower quality educational outcomes, as measured by
international test scores, are observed to receive a lower average return to their schooling in …