Changes in the structure of Canadian post-secondary graduates' earnings in the 1980s and 1990s / by Ross Finnie.: CS81-0016/1999E-PDF

"This paper looks at the labour market outcomes of three recent cohorts of Canadian post-secondary graduates using the National Graduates Surveys of the classes of 1982, 1986, and 1990. Their unemployment rates compare very favourably with those of non-graduates, including large declines from two years to five years following graduation, and no general deterioration over time. Earnings levels have shown small-to-moderate declines (depending on the specific level of education - College, Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D.) across cohorts in the case of male graduates and increases of similar magnitudes for female graduates. The factors underlying these patters are investigated using a standard regression-based decomposition analysis, with the result indicating that there has been no large scale shift against graduates in terms of prevailing market conditions"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency Canada. Statistics Canada. Business and Labour Market Analysis Division.
Title Changes in the structure of Canadian post-secondary graduates' earnings in the 1980s and 1990s / by Ross Finnie.
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Statistics Canada].
Cover title.
"March 1999."
Includes bibliographic references.
Publishing information Ottawa : Statistics Canada, 1999.
Author / Contributor Finnie, Ross.
Description 30, [6] p.
Catalogue number
  • CS81-0016/1999E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number 81F0016XPE
Subject terms Income
Postsecondary education
Surveys
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