Benoit Dostie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1051632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benoit Dostie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benoit |
| FAMILY NAME | Dostie |
| SIGNATURE | DOSTIE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | HEC Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4133-2365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Job Attributes and Occupational Changes
Les changements technologiques ont deux effets de premier ordre sur la nature du travail. Premièrement, les nouvelles technologies peuvent entraîner des changements au sein des professions des personnes sur le marché du travail, et, deuxièmement, elles peuvent pousser ces personnes à passer d’une profession à l’autre. Afin de quantifier ces effets, la présente étude procède à un rapprochement des données détaillées sur les professions tirées des …
Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, the authors examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), findings show that firm-specific premiums explain nearly one-quarter of the 26.8% average earnings gap between female and male workers. On average, firms' hiring pr…
Earnings Gaps between Native-Born Canadians and Immigrants
A growing literature shows that earnings differentials are explained in part by the fact that workers from different groups sort differently into high-paying and low-paying firms or are paid differently within the same firm. In this article, we explore whether any differences exist in how those two different channels contribute to earnings differentials between immigrants and native-born Canadians in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, an…
Immigrants and Workplace Training
Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study, we use longitudinal Canadian linked employer–employee data to examine whether white/visible minority immigrants and Canadian‐born emplooyees experience different opportunities in two well‐defined measures of firm‐sponsored training: on‐the‐job training and classroom training. While we find no differences in on‐the‐job training betwe…
The Impact of Training on Innovation
The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. The author tests this hypothesis using detailed data on firms' human capital investments and innovation performance from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey, 1999-2006. The regression results, including workplace fixed effects and allowing for time-varyi…
Serial Referendums on Alcohol Prohibition
The 1920s American prohibition of alcohol is notorious but not unique. Many countries experienced similar struggles. However, none went through such a protracted struggle as New Zealand, the only country to hold nationwide referendums on prohibition at every general election for almost eight decades from 1911 to 1987. Indeed, if the majority threshold of its first referendum in 1911 had been set at 50 percent instead of at 60 percent, New Zealand…
Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training
We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes with age. Although the standard human capital investment model predicts such a decline, we also consider the possibility that the wage and productivity impacts of training decline with age. Taking into account endogenous training decisions, we find that the training wage premium diminishes only slightly …
The people's will”
Self-selection in migration and returns to unobservables
Les rendements de la formation en entreprise
This article studies the impact of firm-sponsored training on productivity. The data used are taken from the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) of Statistics Canada (1999–2002). The impact of training on productivity is measured by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function, where investment in human capital is treated as a production input. Our methodology is distinguished from that used in earlier studies by the fact that we model the firm'…
Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages
Attaining universal basic education remains an elusive goal in many developing countries. This article examines the determinants of school enrollment among children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two large north Indian states. In addition to individual‐ and household‐level influences, we consider the role of village‐level contextual effects on the school enrollment decision. Our results suggest that enrollment is increasing in parental education as …
Job Turnover and the Returns to Seniority
In this paper, we match firm data to individual work history files in order to simultaneously estimate the wage and employment duration processes of a longitudinal sample of two million French workers employed in roughly one million firms and followed over twenty years. The particular structure of the data set allows us to distinguish between the impact of job search and labor demand indicators on wages and employment at the job level. The model …
New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism. The authors extend the typical labor-leisure model used to analyze the decision to skip work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to the absenteeism decision and uncertainty about the cost of absenteeism. Estimates based on data from Statistics Canada's Workplace Employee Survey (1999-2002), with controls for observed and unobserved demographic, job, and firm characte…
Seasonal poverty in Madagascar
Seasonal poverty in Madagascar
The people's will”
Self-selection in migration and returns to unobservables
Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages
Attaining universal basic education remains an elusive goal in many developing countries. This article examines the determinants of school enrollment among children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two large north Indian states. In addition to individual‐ and household‐level influences, we consider the role of village‐level contextual effects on the school enrollment decision. Our results suggest that enrollment is increasing in parental education as …
New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism. The authors extend the typical labor-leisure model used to analyze the decision to skip work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to the absenteeism decision and uncertainty about the cost of absenteeism. Estimates based on data from Statistics Canada's Workplace Employee Survey (1999-2002), with controls for observed and unobserved demographic, job, and firm characte…
Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, the authors examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), findings show that firm-specific premiums explain nearly one-quarter of the 26.8% average earnings gap between female and male workers. On average, firms' hiring pr…
Job Attributes and Occupational Changes
Les changements technologiques ont deux effets de premier ordre sur la nature du travail. Premièrement, les nouvelles technologies peuvent entraîner des changements au sein des professions des personnes sur le marché du travail, et, deuxièmement, elles peuvent pousser ces personnes à passer d’une profession à l’autre. Afin de quantifier ces effets, la présente étude procède à un rapprochement des données détaillées sur les professions tirées des …
Earnings Gaps between Native-Born Canadians and Immigrants
A growing literature shows that earnings differentials are explained in part by the fact that workers from different groups sort differently into high-paying and low-paying firms or are paid differently within the same firm. In this article, we explore whether any differences exist in how those two different channels contribute to earnings differentials between immigrants and native-born Canadians in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, an…
Serial Referendums on Alcohol Prohibition
The 1920s American prohibition of alcohol is notorious but not unique. Many countries experienced similar struggles. However, none went through such a protracted struggle as New Zealand, the only country to hold nationwide referendums on prohibition at every general election for almost eight decades from 1911 to 1987. Indeed, if the majority threshold of its first referendum in 1911 had been set at 50 percent instead of at 60 percent, New Zealand…
Les rendements de la formation en entreprise
This article studies the impact of firm-sponsored training on productivity. The data used are taken from the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) of Statistics Canada (1999–2002). The impact of training on productivity is measured by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function, where investment in human capital is treated as a production input. Our methodology is distinguished from that used in earlier studies by the fact that we model the firm'…
Seasonal poverty in Madagascar
Job Turnover and the Returns to Seniority
In this paper, we match firm data to individual work history files in order to simultaneously estimate the wage and employment duration processes of a longitudinal sample of two million French workers employed in roughly one million firms and followed over twenty years. The particular structure of the data set allows us to distinguish between the impact of job search and labor demand indicators on wages and employment at the job level. The model …
New Evidence on the Determinants of Absenteeism Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of absenteeism. The authors extend the typical labor-leisure model used to analyze the decision to skip work to include firm-level policy variables relevant to the absenteeism decision and uncertainty about the cost of absenteeism. Estimates based on data from Statistics Canada's Workplace Employee Survey (1999-2002), with controls for observed and unobserved demographic, job, and firm characte…
Determinants of School Enrollment in Indian Villages
Attaining universal basic education remains an elusive goal in many developing countries. This article examines the determinants of school enrollment among children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two large north Indian states. In addition to individual‐ and household‐level influences, we consider the role of village‐level contextual effects on the school enrollment decision. Our results suggest that enrollment is increasing in parental education as …
Les rendements de la formation en entreprise
This article studies the impact of firm-sponsored training on productivity. The data used are taken from the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) of Statistics Canada (1999–2002). The impact of training on productivity is measured by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function, where investment in human capital is treated as a production input. Our methodology is distinguished from that used in earlier studies by the fact that we model the firm'…
Self-selection in migration and returns to unobservables
The people's will”
Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training
We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes with age. Although the standard human capital investment model predicts such a decline, we also consider the possibility that the wage and productivity impacts of training decline with age. Taking into account endogenous training decisions, we find that the training wage premium diminishes only slightly …
Serial Referendums on Alcohol Prohibition
The 1920s American prohibition of alcohol is notorious but not unique. Many countries experienced similar struggles. However, none went through such a protracted struggle as New Zealand, the only country to hold nationwide referendums on prohibition at every general election for almost eight decades from 1911 to 1987. Indeed, if the majority threshold of its first referendum in 1911 had been set at 50 percent instead of at 60 percent, New Zealand…
The Impact of Training on Innovation
The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. The author tests this hypothesis using detailed data on firms' human capital investments and innovation performance from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey, 1999-2006. The regression results, including workplace fixed effects and allowing for time-varyi…
Immigrants and Workplace Training
Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study, we use longitudinal Canadian linked employer–employee data to examine whether white/visible minority immigrants and Canadian‐born emplooyees experience different opportunities in two well‐defined measures of firm‐sponsored training: on‐the‐job training and classroom training. While we find no differences in on‐the‐job training betwe…
Earnings Gaps between Native-Born Canadians and Immigrants
A growing literature shows that earnings differentials are explained in part by the fact that workers from different groups sort differently into high-paying and low-paying firms or are paid differently within the same firm. In this article, we explore whether any differences exist in how those two different channels contribute to earnings differentials between immigrants and native-born Canadians in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, an…
Job Attributes and Occupational Changes
Les changements technologiques ont deux effets de premier ordre sur la nature du travail. Premièrement, les nouvelles technologies peuvent entraîner des changements au sein des professions des personnes sur le marché du travail, et, deuxièmement, elles peuvent pousser ces personnes à passer d’une profession à l’autre. Afin de quantifier ces effets, la présente étude procède à un rapprochement des données détaillées sur les professions tirées des …
Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, the authors examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), findings show that firm-specific premiums explain nearly one-quarter of the 26.8% average earnings gap between female and male workers. On average, firms' hiring pr…
Economics (13 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (8 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Human capital (4 works)