Ross Finnie

TL;DR: This article presented the results of an empirical analysis based on a very rich Canadian dataset, the Youth in Transition Survey, which follows youth from age 15 through to age 25 and includes remarkably detailed information on family and other background factors as well as schooling experiences, which provides evidence that points to the importance of cultural influences on PSE choices.

TL;DR: The authors presented new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background using the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.

TL;DR: The authors report the results of an empirical analysis of the early career outcomes of recent Canadian Bachelor's level graduates by using three waves of the National Graduates Surveys, which comprise large, representative databases of individuals who successfully completed their programs at Canadian universities in 1982, 1986, and 1990, with information gathered during interviews conducted two and five years after graduation for each group of graduates (1984-87, 1988-92, 1990-95).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decompose the total variation of workers' earnings into permanent variation and a transitory component (or earnings instability), and find that there has been an increase in overall earnings variability among Canadian workers between the two sub-periods, with the increase much more marked among men, particularly with non-continuous labour market attachment.

TL;DR: The authors found that literacy, numeracy and education strongly influence the probability of being employed, unemployed, having a wage-paying job and obtaining government transfer payments in addition to incomes, weeks worked and weeks unemployed for a sample of 16 to 24-year-olds.