Browsing by Type "working paper"
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Family Background and Access to Post-Secondary Education: What Happened in the 1990's (Woking Paper 34)
(2003-10)This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to post-secondary education and family background. More specifically, we use the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)to ... -
Fourth-Century Gothic Settlement and the Late Roman Economy
(2018-09-24)Settlement and integration of non-Romans within Roman territory, political institutions, and culture were driving factors in the success of the Roman Empire since its foundation. This paper aims to examine the changing ... -
A Framework for Citizen-Centred Social Statistics and Analysis (Working Paper 48)
(2012-08)Economic policy-making has long been more integrated than social policy-making in part because the statistics and much of the analysis that supports economic policy are based on a common conceptual framework – the system ... -
From Unemployment to Sustainable Livelihoods in Ottawa's Technology Sector (Working Paper 44)
(2007-06)Since submission of the draft report to the OECD‐LEED Program on 30 June 2007, a unique seven‐years retrospective study of the unemployed high technology workers was released by Statistics Canada.1 Drawing upon Statistics ... -
Globalization, Trade Policy, and the Permissive Consensus in Canada (Working Paper 27)
(2001-11)Do public protests dramatize the new political salience of trade policy? This article analyzes a survey of Canadian mass opinion taken just before the protests against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas in ... -
Hitting the roads with alternative modes; An evaluation of York Region's TDM policies
(2014-02-25)Traffic congestion is a growing and urgent concern for municipal governments. Congestion mitigation policies have traditionally sought to increase the capacity for cars, yet this approach has a tendency to actually increase ... -
Immigrant Earnings : Age at Immigration Matters (Working Paper 20)
(2001-05)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 source country yields virtually no ... -
The Impact on Canada of the Rise of the Chinese Economy: Good, Bad or Indifferent? (Working Paper 50)
(2014-12)From humble beginnings less than twenty years ago, the economic relationship between Canada and the Chinese has flourished so that China is now Canada’s second most important trading partner after the United States. The ... -
The Informational Commons at Risk (Working Paper 8)
(2000-09)Conventional wisdom says that we are on the cusp of a Global Information Society, in which new technologies will provide citizens with unprecedented access to information. This is an appealing but flawed vision of the ... -
INTEGRATING VISUAL ART AND LANGUAGE, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SCIENCE: UNIT PLANS FOR A TEACHING ARTIST
(2019-04)The broad purpose of the project was to explore what an arts partnership could look like. An arts partnership generally involves an artist—or “teaching artist”—from the community spending time in a classroom, working with ... -
The Interaction Between Monetary and Fiscal Policies (Working Paper 30)
(2002-06)One can view the period since 1970 as one in which the authorities struggled to establish appropriate medium-term anchors for both monetary and fiscal policies. During this time, they learned about the appropriate ... -
Is Green the New Red? The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China
(2012-06-04)The Chinese Daoist Assocation has embarked upon an ambitious agenda to promote Daoism as China’s “green religion.” This new construction of “green Daoism” differs, however, from both traditional Chinese and modern Western ... -
Leaving and Coming Back to Canada : Evidence from Longitudinal Data (Working Paper 32)
(2002-12)The paper exploits the unique strengths of Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Administrative Database ("LAD"), constructed from individuals' tax records, to shed new light on the extent and nature of the emigration of Canadians ... -
Liminal animals: exotic, endangered and transgenic creatures
(2012-06-04)Notes for a talk given at a workshop on imagining the non-human other in Asian and continental philosophies, University of Alberta, 2010. -
Living Light: Shangqing Daoist Cultivation in Theory and Practice
(2012-06-04)Notes for a presentation given at a Conference on Daoist Cultivation, Vashon Island, WA, May 2001 -
Manuscript Land and Survey papers guide : Township to book numbers
(2010-04-29)Guide to a microfilmed collection (185 reels) of maps, field notes, land surveys, surveyors diaries and correspondence dating from 1790 through the 1970s and held by Queen's University Library. Relates township names to ... -
The Media and Public Policy (Working Paper 19)
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Minorities, Measured Cognitive Skills and the Earnings of Canadians (Working Paper 26)
(2001-11)This paper uses the Statistics Canada Survey of Literacy Skills in Daily Use (LSUDA) to investigate minority-“white”(i.e., non-minority) income differences and the role education and English/French literacy and numeracy ...