Canadian International Labour Network: Third Major Conference
Travelodge Hotel, 2020 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario
September 24-25, 2000
Wages     Unemployment    Family 
WAGES 

Trends in Inequality

James Ted McDonald (Tasmania), Christopher Worswick* (Carleton) 
Earnings and Employment Probabilities of Men by Education and Birth Cohort,1982-96:
Evidence for the United States, Canada and Australia 

Paul Beaudry, David Green* (University of British Columbia) 
Explaining Wage Inequality Patterns in Germany and the US: 
The Role of Physical and Human Capital 

John B Burbidge*, L Magee, A L Robb (CILN & McMaster)
Married Couple Family Earnings Inequality in Canada and the US

Labour Mobility

Heather Antecol (CILN &  U Illinois)  Deborah Cobb-Clark * (Australian National University)
Stephen Trejo (University of Texas)
Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada and the United States

John Kennan*,  James Walker (Wisconsin) 
Geographical Wage Differentials, Welfare Benefits and Migration

Harriet Duleep*, Daniel J Dowhan (Urban Institute)
Has the Labor Market Quality of US Immigrants Fallen? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Gender and Ethnic Wage Differentials

Heather Antecol *(CILN & U Illinois)   Kelly Bedard (UC Santa Barbara) 
The Relative Earnings of Young Mexican, Black and White Women

Michael Baker* (Toronto  & NBER)  Nicole Fortin (UBC & CRDE & CIRANO) 
Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?

Gillian Hamilton*, Aloysius Siow (Toronto) 
Class, Gender and Marriage 

Non-Cognitive Skills and Labour Market Outcomes

Peter Kuhn, Catherine Weinberger * (UC Santa Barbara) 
Leadership Skills and Labor Market Outcomes

David Autor (MIT & NBER),  Frank Levy (MIT), Richard J Murnane *(Harvard & NBER)
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change:  An Empirical Exploration

Thomas DeLeire* (Chicago), Margo Coleman (Child Welfare League of America)
An Economic Model of  Locus of Control and the Human Capital Investment Decision

UNEMPLOYMENT

The Behaviour of the Unemployed

Miles Corak* (Statistics Canada & Carleton), Björn Gustafsson (Göteborg & IZA, Bonn) 
Torun Österberg (Göteborg)
Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Ging Wong, Harold Henson (CILN & HRDC) 
Job Search and the Evaluation of Labour Market Information and Employment Services

Marc Van Audenrode*, Jean-Yves Duclos (Université Laval), Jean-François Bertrand (HRDC)
Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Reemployment

Unemployment and Wage Determination

Thomas Lemieux * (UBC & CIRANO), Jean Farés (Bank of Canada) 
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: 
A Critical Assessment and Some New Evidence for Canada

Karsten Albæk* (Copenhagen) et al 
Dimensions of the Wage-Unemployment Relationship in the Nordic Countries: 
Wage Flexibility without Wage Curves

Louise Grogan *(CILN & McMaster),  Audra Bowlus (UWO) 
Equilibrium Job Search and Gender Wage Differentials in the UK

Joblessness and Training

Thomas F Crossley *(CILN & York & ANU), Bruce Chapman (ANU) 
Taejong Kim (York & National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
Credit Constraints and Retraining by the Jobless

Jeffrey Smith* (University of Western Ontario), Petra Todd (U Pennsylvania)
Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?

Stephen Jones* (CILN & McMaster), W Craig Riddell (CILN & UBC)
The Dynamics of US Labor Force Attachment

FAMILY

Consumption

Martin Browning*, Mette Ejrnæs (U Copenhagen)
Consumption and Children

Valérie Lechene* (Oxford),  Ian Preston (University College London, Institute for Financial Studies)
Departures from Slutsky Symmetry in Household Demand Models

Lori Curtis* (CILN & Dalhousie),  JoAnn Kingston-Riechers (Dalhousie)
Implications of the Goods and Services Tax for Families in Canada

Frances Woolley (CILN & Carleton) 
Control over Money in Marriage

Inter Generational Mobility

Susan Mayer *(Chicago), Leonard M Lopo (Chicago)
Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed?

Adrienne ten Cate (McMaster & HRDC)
Labour Market Effects of Parental Leave Policy in Canada

Anders Björklund*,  Katarina Richardsson (Stockholm)
How Adopted Children Fare in the Swedish Labor Market 

Canada and the United States

Shelley Phipps*,  Lori Curtis (CILN & Dalhousie)
Poverty and Child Well-Being in Canada and the United States: 
Does it Matter How We Measure Poverty?
 

Keith Banting (CILN & Queen’s)
Disembedded Liberalism? The Emerging Social Accommodation in Northern North America 

Michael Baker (CILN & Toronto & NBER), Jonathan Gruber (MIT & NBER) 
Kevin Milligan* (Toronto)
Income Security Programs and Retirement in Canada

Welfare and Income Inequality

Arthur Sweetman (CILN & Queen's)
Bill Warburton, Linda DeBenedictis (BC Ministry of Social Development and Economic Security)
Rebecca Warburton * (U Victoria)
Disability Benefits and Impacts on Welfare Dependence and Health

Jörgen  Hansen * (IZA, Bonn),  Magnus Lofstrom (IZA, Bonn)
Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: 
Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out of Welfare?

Martin Dooley* (CILN & McMaster),  Ross Finnie (Queen's)
An Analysis of Differences in Labour Force Participation, Earnings and Welfare 
Participation Among Canadian Lone Mothers Using Longitudinal Data
 

*   presenter

Return to CILN papers
Last updated: November 15, 2000