A Ferrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 55130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Ferrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrer |
| SIGNATURE | FERRER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7385-2381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Added Worker Effects in Canada
Nous examinons les effets de travailleurs supplémentaires au Canada à l'aide de l'Enquête sur la population active. À la marge extensive, nous notons que les femmes qui n'ont pas d'emploi sont plus susceptibles de se trouver un emploi au cours du mois suivant la perte d'emploi de leur conjoint.e. La perte d'emploi du/de la conjoint.e n'a pas d'effet sur la transition des femmes vers l'emploi au cours des prochains mois et on ne note pas d'effet s…
The Work Trajectories of Married Canadian Immigrant Women, 2006–2019
The relationship between intermediary actors in the aquaculture supply chain at Tam Giang Lagoon, Central Vietnam
Aquaculture's profitability depends on a whole linkage chain involving all stages of producing, distributing and commercializing the product to reach final consumption.The efficiency of a supply chain is affected by the types of relationships among actors.This study aims to explore the nature of intermediary actors' relationship in the aquaculture supply chain and the determinants of this relationship.Tam Giang Lagoon, Thua Thien Hue province, Ce…
Differences in Skill Requirements Between Jobs Held by Immigrant and Native Women Across Five European Destinations
We examine whether the requirements of analytical skills and physical strength in jobs held by immigrant women in five major European destinations (France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK) converge to those of jobs of native-born women in their first ten years in the destination country. To this aim, we combine data from the European Labour Force Survey (2005–2015) of immigrant women arriving in these five countries and information about skill r…
Divorce, Remarriage and Child Cognitive Outcomes
This study investigates the role of divorce and remarriage on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected biennially since 1994, we investigate the association between children’s math and reading performance and divorce and remarriage relative to intact families. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower readi…
The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada
This paper uses the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006 to examine the fertility of married immigrant women (the presence of infants and preschool children in the household) around the time of migration. Then it estimates a proportional hazards model of first-birth risks of migrants relative to natives from two years before to five years after arrival to Canada. While immigrants have relatively fewer births during the two years pr…
The Social Rate of Return to Investing in Character
The Puzzling Effects of Delaying Schooling on Canadian Wages
We compare the returns on education for graduates of postsecondary institutions who delayed their tertiary education for some time and those who proceeded with no delays. Using a unique survey that collects information on a representative cohort of graduates, we are able to estimate the effects of delaying school among successful graduates abstracting from specific macroeconomic conditions at the time of graduation. We show that graduates who del…
New Directions in Immigration Policy
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new im…
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was…
Evidence of the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Heating Cost Inflation in Canada, 1998–2001
We investigated the 5.3 percentage point increase in the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada between the National Population Health Survey of 1998–99 and the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2000–01. We found that the increase in food insecurity occurred disproportionately in households in the western provinces, particularly Alberta, and among homeowners rather than renters. Inter-provincial variation in heating cost inflation explained as…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
Long-Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation
Tight labor markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil-producing economies such as the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks during the period from 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long-term effect on the productivity of the labor force if the oil boom resulted in workers reducing their ultimate investment in human capital rather than merely altering the …
Admixture estimates for the population of Havana City
Our findings indicate the existence of admixture and genetic structure in the population of Havana City. This study represents one of the first steps towards understanding Cuban population admixture in order to produce successful experimental designs for admixture mapping
Education, credentials, and immigrant earnings
Using 1981 to 2001 Census data, we study how the human capital of immigrants is rewarded in Canada. We distinguish between years of schooling and degrees obtained in order to estimate ‘sheepskin’ effects – the gain in earnings associated with receipt of a degree, controlling for years of schooling. We find that immigrant years of schooling and immigrant work experience accumulated before arrival is valued much less than Canadian experience of com…
Should Workers Care about Firm Size
The authors analyze how firms of different sizes reward measured skills and unmeasured ability. The empirical methodology, based on nonlinear instrumental variable estimation, permits direct estimation of the returns to unmeasured ability by firm size. An analysis of panel data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for two periods, 1993-1998 and 1996-2001, reveals statistically significant differences between firms of different s…
The Effect of Literacy on Immigrant Earnings
We examine the impact of literacy on immigrant earnings and the sources of lower returns to education and experience among immigrants. We find that the native-born literacy distribution dominates that for immigrants. However, the two groups obtain similar returns to literacy skills, contrary to discrimination-based explanations for immigrant—native-born earnings differentials. Among the university-educated, literacy differences account for about …
Housing, Neighbourhoods and Development Outcomes of Children in Canada
We use data from Cycles 1 to 3 of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to examine whether and how much housing and neighbourhood quality affect child outcomes. Home ownership, housing assistance, the need for major repairs, residential stability, underhousing, and neighbourhood quality are used as explanatory variables in population-averaged panel data and endogenous treatment models to estimate the impact of these variables on …
Signalling, Inequality and the Social Structure
This paper proposes a theory of endogenous transmission of social status through signalling in the labour market. A signalling game is analysed, in which education, acting as a signalling good, determines one's position in society. The economy's degree of inequality is shown to be a determinant of whether a society is ‘aristocratic’, where high income is the source of social standing, or ‘meritocratic’, bestowing status on high ability. Each soci…
Tuberculosis infection and disease among schoolchildren
BACKGROUND: The HIV/AIDS epidemic has caused an excess of tuberculosis cases in Spain and in other countries, but its impact on tuberculosis infection is less well understood. This study presents a massive screening undertaken to estimate the prevalence of tuberculous infection in a cohort of primary school entrants. The evolution of the risk of infection is studied by comparison with previous data in the same population. METHODS: Tuberculin skin…
The Argentine Economy. An Economic History of Argentina
New Directions in Immigration Policy
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new im…
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada
This paper uses the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006 to examine the fertility of married immigrant women (the presence of infants and preschool children in the household) around the time of migration. Then it estimates a proportional hazards model of first-birth risks of migrants relative to natives from two years before to five years after arrival to Canada. While immigrants have relatively fewer births during the two years pr…
Evidence of the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Heating Cost Inflation in Canada, 1998–2001
We investigated the 5.3 percentage point increase in the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada between the National Population Health Survey of 1998–99 and the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2000–01. We found that the increase in food insecurity occurred disproportionately in households in the western provinces, particularly Alberta, and among homeowners rather than renters. Inter-provincial variation in heating cost inflation explained as…
Long-Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation
Tight labor markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil-producing economies such as the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks during the period from 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long-term effect on the productivity of the labor force if the oil boom resulted in workers reducing their ultimate investment in human capital rather than merely altering the …
Housing, Neighbourhoods and Development Outcomes of Children in Canada
We use data from Cycles 1 to 3 of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to examine whether and how much housing and neighbourhood quality affect child outcomes. Home ownership, housing assistance, the need for major repairs, residential stability, underhousing, and neighbourhood quality are used as explanatory variables in population-averaged panel data and endogenous treatment models to estimate the impact of these variables on …
Differences in Skill Requirements Between Jobs Held by Immigrant and Native Women Across Five European Destinations
We examine whether the requirements of analytical skills and physical strength in jobs held by immigrant women in five major European destinations (France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK) converge to those of jobs of native-born women in their first ten years in the destination country. To this aim, we combine data from the European Labour Force Survey (2005–2015) of immigrant women arriving in these five countries and information about skill r…
Should Workers Care about Firm Size
The authors analyze how firms of different sizes reward measured skills and unmeasured ability. The empirical methodology, based on nonlinear instrumental variable estimation, permits direct estimation of the returns to unmeasured ability by firm size. An analysis of panel data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for two periods, 1993-1998 and 1996-2001, reveals statistically significant differences between firms of different s…
Tuberculosis infection and disease among schoolchildren
BACKGROUND: The HIV/AIDS epidemic has caused an excess of tuberculosis cases in Spain and in other countries, but its impact on tuberculosis infection is less well understood. This study presents a massive screening undertaken to estimate the prevalence of tuberculous infection in a cohort of primary school entrants. The evolution of the risk of infection is studied by comparison with previous data in the same population. METHODS: Tuberculin skin…
The Argentine Economy. An Economic History of Argentina
Tuberculosis infection and disease among schoolchildren
BACKGROUND: The HIV/AIDS epidemic has caused an excess of tuberculosis cases in Spain and in other countries, but its impact on tuberculosis infection is less well understood. This study presents a massive screening undertaken to estimate the prevalence of tuberculous infection in a cohort of primary school entrants. The evolution of the risk of infection is studied by comparison with previous data in the same population. METHODS: Tuberculin skin…
Signalling, Inequality and the Social Structure
This paper proposes a theory of endogenous transmission of social status through signalling in the labour market. A signalling game is analysed, in which education, acting as a signalling good, determines one's position in society. The economy's degree of inequality is shown to be a determinant of whether a society is ‘aristocratic’, where high income is the source of social standing, or ‘meritocratic’, bestowing status on high ability. Each soci…
The Effect of Literacy on Immigrant Earnings
We examine the impact of literacy on immigrant earnings and the sources of lower returns to education and experience among immigrants. We find that the native-born literacy distribution dominates that for immigrants. However, the two groups obtain similar returns to literacy skills, contrary to discrimination-based explanations for immigrant—native-born earnings differentials. Among the university-educated, literacy differences account for about …
Housing, Neighbourhoods and Development Outcomes of Children in Canada
We use data from Cycles 1 to 3 of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth to examine whether and how much housing and neighbourhood quality affect child outcomes. Home ownership, housing assistance, the need for major repairs, residential stability, underhousing, and neighbourhood quality are used as explanatory variables in population-averaged panel data and endogenous treatment models to estimate the impact of these variables on …
Education, credentials, and immigrant earnings
Using 1981 to 2001 Census data, we study how the human capital of immigrants is rewarded in Canada. We distinguish between years of schooling and degrees obtained in order to estimate ‘sheepskin’ effects – the gain in earnings associated with receipt of a degree, controlling for years of schooling. We find that immigrant years of schooling and immigrant work experience accumulated before arrival is valued much less than Canadian experience of com…
Should Workers Care about Firm Size
The authors analyze how firms of different sizes reward measured skills and unmeasured ability. The empirical methodology, based on nonlinear instrumental variable estimation, permits direct estimation of the returns to unmeasured ability by firm size. An analysis of panel data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics for two periods, 1993-1998 and 1996-2001, reveals statistically significant differences between firms of different s…
Admixture estimates for the population of Havana City
Our findings indicate the existence of admixture and genetic structure in the population of Havana City. This study represents one of the first steps towards understanding Cuban population admixture in order to produce successful experimental designs for admixture mapping
Evidence of the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Heating Cost Inflation in Canada, 1998–2001
We investigated the 5.3 percentage point increase in the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada between the National Population Health Survey of 1998–99 and the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2000–01. We found that the increase in food insecurity occurred disproportionately in households in the western provinces, particularly Alberta, and among homeowners rather than renters. Inter-provincial variation in heating cost inflation explained as…
Fertility Patterns of Child Migrants
This article examines the fertility of women who migrated as children to one of three OECD countries-Canada, the United Kingdom, and France-and how it differs from that of native-born women, by age at migration. By looking at child migrants whose fertility behavior is neither interrupted by the migration event nor confounded by selection, the authors obtain a unique perspective on the adaptation process as a mechanism that explains variation in o…
Long-Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation
Tight labor markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil-producing economies such as the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks during the period from 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long-term effect on the productivity of the labor force if the oil boom resulted in workers reducing their ultimate investment in human capital rather than merely altering the …
The Puzzling Effects of Delaying Schooling on Canadian Wages
We compare the returns on education for graduates of postsecondary institutions who delayed their tertiary education for some time and those who proceeded with no delays. Using a unique survey that collects information on a representative cohort of graduates, we are able to estimate the effects of delaying school among successful graduates abstracting from specific macroeconomic conditions at the time of graduation. We show that graduates who del…
New Directions in Immigration Policy
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new im…
Factors influencing the fertility choices of child immigrants in Canada
We analysed the fertility of women who migrated to Canada before reaching age 19, using the 20 per cent sample of the Canadian censuses from 1991 to 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, and is particularly high for those immigrating in late adolescence. This pattern prevails regardless of the country of origin, and of whether the mother tongue of the migrants was an official language in Canada. The fertility of those for whom it was…
The Social Rate of Return to Investing in Character
The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada
This paper uses the confidential files of the Canadian Census 1991–2006 to examine the fertility of married immigrant women (the presence of infants and preschool children in the household) around the time of migration. Then it estimates a proportional hazards model of first-birth risks of migrants relative to natives from two years before to five years after arrival to Canada. While immigrants have relatively fewer births during the two years pr…
Divorce, Remarriage and Child Cognitive Outcomes
This study investigates the role of divorce and remarriage on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), collected biennially since 1994, we investigate the association between children’s math and reading performance and divorce and remarriage relative to intact families. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower readi…
The Work Trajectories of Married Canadian Immigrant Women, 2006–2019
The relationship between intermediary actors in the aquaculture supply chain at Tam Giang Lagoon, Central Vietnam
Aquaculture's profitability depends on a whole linkage chain involving all stages of producing, distributing and commercializing the product to reach final consumption.The efficiency of a supply chain is affected by the types of relationships among actors.This study aims to explore the nature of intermediary actors' relationship in the aquaculture supply chain and the determinants of this relationship.Tam Giang Lagoon, Thua Thien Hue province, Ce…
Differences in Skill Requirements Between Jobs Held by Immigrant and Native Women Across Five European Destinations
We examine whether the requirements of analytical skills and physical strength in jobs held by immigrant women in five major European destinations (France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the UK) converge to those of jobs of native-born women in their first ten years in the destination country. To this aim, we combine data from the European Labour Force Survey (2005–2015) of immigrant women arriving in these five countries and information about skill r…
Added Worker Effects in Canada
Nous examinons les effets de travailleurs supplémentaires au Canada à l'aide de l'Enquête sur la population active. À la marge extensive, nous notons que les femmes qui n'ont pas d'emploi sont plus susceptibles de se trouver un emploi au cours du mois suivant la perte d'emploi de leur conjoint.e. La perte d'emploi du/de la conjoint.e n'a pas d'effet sur la transition des femmes vers l'emploi au cours des prochains mois et on ne note pas d'effet s…
Economics (17 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Demography (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Labour economics (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Immigration (8 works)