Ross Finnie
Biographic Data
| ID | 184087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Finnie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Finnie |
| SIGNATURE | FINNIE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Evolution of Gender Patterns in Retirement Saving in Canada
Une préoccupation persistante au sujet des personnes âgées est leur capacité à maintenir leur bienêtre économique après leur retraite. Dans une large mesure, ce sont les décisions d’épargne prises pendant les années précédant la retraite qui financent la consommation pendant les années de retraite. Les disparités entre les sexes en ce qui concerne les gains sur le marché du travail et les régimes de retraite financés par l’employeur, de même que …
How Do Older Laid-Off Workers Get By: Reemployment, Early Retirement, or Social Insurance Benefits
We investigate the post-layoff configuration of income sources and pathways of prime-age and older laid-off workers exhibiting a high degree of prior attachment. Using a unique Canadian administrative database that links the event of the involuntary layoff with detailed data on income receipt, we track all of their sources of income over an interval spanning five years after layoff. We conduct a multivariate statistical analysis of the incidence …
Information and Communication Technology Talent: The Skills We Need—Framing the Issues
This article provides a conceptual framework for discussing information and communication technology (ICT) skills shortages in a context in which having a sufficient supply of skilled ICT workers—both inside the ICT sector and more broadly—is critical to the performance of the Canadian economy. We start with an outline of a simple model of how ICT skills shortages might be manifested in labour market signals, such as rising wages, and then how, i…
Who Goes into STEM Disciplines? Evidence from the Youth in Transition Survey
This article presents an empirical analysis of access to post-secondary education (PSE) as it pertains to students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, who are vital to the nation’s economic performance, especially with respect to its information and communication technology (ICT) sector. The analysis is based on the rich Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A (YITS–A), which follows a representative sample of Canad…
Earnings of University Bachelor’s Degree Graduates in Information and Communication Technology Programs: A Tax Data Analysis
This article presents an analysis of the labour market earnings of university graduates with bachelor’s degrees in information and communication technology (ICT) programs using a dataset that links information on students from the University of Ottawa to tax records held at Statistics Canada. We track each cohort of graduates from 1998 through 2010, thus covering the dot-com boom and subsequent bust in 2001. We compare ICT graduates with engineer…
Why Do So Many Children of Immigrants Attend University? Evidence for Canada
A Longitudinal Analysis of GIS Entries and Exits
We focus on one particular pillar of the public retirement income network in Canada, namely, receipt outcomes of the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) regime. This empirical analysis is carried out in a dynamic framework. We address the extent to which individuals enter the state of GIS receipt at various ages as well as the extent to which individuals who receive GIS benefits at the earliest age of eligibility subsequently exit the regime. We f…
The Role of University Characteristics in Determining Post-Graduation Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Canadian Cohorts
À partir des cohortes de l’Enquête nationale auprès des diplômés, nous analysons les revenus des Canadiens détenteurs d’un baccalauréat cinq ans après l’obtention de leur diplôme. Nos résultats montrent qu’il y a un lien important entre les revenus et l’université qui décerne le diplôme, puisque nous observons des corrélations entre les revenus et les caractéristiques des universités fréquentées. Par exemple, le nombre plus élevé d’étudiants de p…
Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Amongst the Retired Population: An Analysis of the Incidence
Dans cet article, nous évaluons le taux d’incidence, chez les Canadiens de 65 ans et plus, du fait d’être bénéficiaire de prestations de la Sécurité de la vieillesse. La variable dépendante que nous modélisons est le taux d’incidence du fait d’être bénéficiaire de prestations de Supplément de revenu garanti (SRG). Nous estimons des équations multivariées afin de déterminer les effets de l’âge, de la cohorte, du statut matrimonial, de la province …
Access to post-secondary education: The importance of culture
The Redistributional Impact of Canada's Employment Insurance Program, 1992–2002
For a decade or so starting in the early 1990s, Canada’s major income support programs underwent substantial reform. Meanwhile, the economy first lingered in a deep recession and then recovered with a period of strong growth. This paper focuses on how the distributional impact of Employment Insurance (EI) evolved during this period. We find that EI was strongly redistributive throughout the whole period with respect to the earnings of individuals…
Welfare Policy, Language Group, and the Duration of Lone Motherhood Spells
We use a large sample of linked income tax records to estimate a competing risk model of the likelihood of an exit from lone motherhood to either a marital or common-law union. We find that recent Canadian welfare policy reforms have had only a small impact at most on the duration of lone motherhood spells. Lone mothers in Francophone Quebec and in the rest of Canada exit to different states, but spend similar lengths of time as single parents. F…
The school-to-work transition of Canadian post-secondary graduates: A Dynamic Analysis
This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the school‐to‐work transition of Canadian post‐secondary graduates based on three waves of the National Graduates Surveys, representing those who successfully completed their programmes at Canadian colleges and universities in 1982, 1986, and 1990. Information was gathered during interviews conducted two and five years after graduation for each group, thus facilitating a dynamic analysis …
Earnings Variability and Earnings Instability of Women and Men in Canada: How Do the 1990s Compare to the 1980s
Charles M. Beach, Ross Finnie, David Gray, Earnings Variability and Earnings Instability of Women and Men in Canada: How Do the 1990s Compare to the 1980s?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 29, Supplement: The Linkages between Economic Growth and Inequality (Jan., 2003), pp. S41-S63
Minorities, Cognitive Skills and Incomes of Canadians
This paper uses the Statistics Canada Survey of Literacy Skills in Daily Use (LSUDA) to investigate minority-white income differences and the role cognitive skills play in those patterns.Some minority groups have substantially lower (tested) levels of literacy and numeracy skills than whites and other more economically successful minorities, and in the case of certain male groups these differences play a significant role in explaining the observe…
Student Loans, Student Financial Aid and Post-secondary Education in Canada
This paper begins by briefly describing Canada's student loan system, including the typical costs of a year of post-secondary schooling and the levels of financial support available. It then reports the results of an empirical analysis that shows that borrowing remains at reasonable levels and repayment difficulties are still relatively uncommon. Various reforms are then suggested, including higher borrowing limits, wider eligibility, and more as…
From School to Work: The Evolution of Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates
Ross Finnie, From School to Work: The Evolution of Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 197-224
The Negotiation Diaries
Is It Worth Doing a Science or Technology Degree in Canada? Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
This paper looks at the early careers of science and technology graduates in Canada using three waves of the National Graduates Surveys. Employment rates, earnings levels, job satisfaction, the job-education skill match, and the overall evaluation of the education program are studied in order to evaluate the attractiveness of careers in science and technology and the degree to which these graduates' skills and talents are being efficiently utiliz…
Family Matters: New Policies for Divorce, Lone Mothers, and Child Poverty
Child Support: The Guideline Options
Women, men, and the economic consequences of divorce: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal data
Cet article présente les résultats d'une analyse empirique des conséquences économiques du divorce utilisant la banque de données Longitudinal Administrative Database ( lad ). Cette banque de données a été construite à partir des déclarations de revenus pour fin d'impǒt de canadiens ayant vécu un divorce. Tant la période précédent le divorce que la période měme du divorce et celle le suivant sont couvertes par la banque. Cette étude du divorce es…
Women, men, and the economic consequences of divorce: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal data
Cet article présente les résultats d'une analyse empirique des conséquences économiques du divorce utilisant la banque de données Longitudinal Administrative Database ( lad ). Cette banque de données a été construite à partir des déclarations de revenus pour fin d'impǒt de canadiens ayant vécu un divorce. Tant la période précédent le divorce que la période měme du divorce et celle le suivant sont couvertes par la banque. Cette étude du divorce es…
From School to Work: The Evolution of Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates
Ross Finnie, From School to Work: The Evolution of Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 197-224
Access to post-secondary education: The importance of culture
Minorities, Cognitive Skills and Incomes of Canadians
This paper uses the Statistics Canada Survey of Literacy Skills in Daily Use (LSUDA) to investigate minority-white income differences and the role cognitive skills play in those patterns.Some minority groups have substantially lower (tested) levels of literacy and numeracy skills than whites and other more economically successful minorities, and in the case of certain male groups these differences play a significant role in explaining the observe…
Is It Worth Doing a Science or Technology Degree in Canada? Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
This paper looks at the early careers of science and technology graduates in Canada using three waves of the National Graduates Surveys. Employment rates, earnings levels, job satisfaction, the job-education skill match, and the overall evaluation of the education program are studied in order to evaluate the attractiveness of careers in science and technology and the degree to which these graduates' skills and talents are being efficiently utiliz…
Earnings Variability and Earnings Instability of Women and Men in Canada: How Do the 1990s Compare to the 1980s
Charles M. Beach, Ross Finnie, David Gray, Earnings Variability and Earnings Instability of Women and Men in Canada: How Do the 1990s Compare to the 1980s?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 29, Supplement: The Linkages between Economic Growth and Inequality (Jan., 2003), pp. S41-S63
The Negotiation Diaries
Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Amongst the Retired Population: An Analysis of the Incidence
Dans cet article, nous évaluons le taux d’incidence, chez les Canadiens de 65 ans et plus, du fait d’être bénéficiaire de prestations de la Sécurité de la vieillesse. La variable dépendante que nous modélisons est le taux d’incidence du fait d’être bénéficiaire de prestations de Supplément de revenu garanti (SRG). Nous estimons des équations multivariées afin de déterminer les effets de l’âge, de la cohorte, du statut matrimonial, de la province …
Who Goes into STEM Disciplines? Evidence from the Youth in Transition Survey
This article presents an empirical analysis of access to post-secondary education (PSE) as it pertains to students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, who are vital to the nation’s economic performance, especially with respect to its information and communication technology (ICT) sector. The analysis is based on the rich Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A (YITS–A), which follows a representative sample of Canad…
A Longitudinal Analysis of GIS Entries and Exits
We focus on one particular pillar of the public retirement income network in Canada, namely, receipt outcomes of the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) regime. This empirical analysis is carried out in a dynamic framework. We address the extent to which individuals enter the state of GIS receipt at various ages as well as the extent to which individuals who receive GIS benefits at the earliest age of eligibility subsequently exit the regime. We f…
Student Loans, Student Financial Aid and Post-secondary Education in Canada
This paper begins by briefly describing Canada's student loan system, including the typical costs of a year of post-secondary schooling and the levels of financial support available. It then reports the results of an empirical analysis that shows that borrowing remains at reasonable levels and repayment difficulties are still relatively uncommon. Various reforms are then suggested, including higher borrowing limits, wider eligibility, and more as…
Evolution of Gender Patterns in Retirement Saving in Canada
Une préoccupation persistante au sujet des personnes âgées est leur capacité à maintenir leur bienêtre économique après leur retraite. Dans une large mesure, ce sont les décisions d’épargne prises pendant les années précédant la retraite qui financent la consommation pendant les années de retraite. Les disparités entre les sexes en ce qui concerne les gains sur le marché du travail et les régimes de retraite financés par l’employeur, de même que …
Earnings of University Bachelor’s Degree Graduates in Information and Communication Technology Programs: A Tax Data Analysis
This article presents an analysis of the labour market earnings of university graduates with bachelor’s degrees in information and communication technology (ICT) programs using a dataset that links information on students from the University of Ottawa to tax records held at Statistics Canada. We track each cohort of graduates from 1998 through 2010, thus covering the dot-com boom and subsequent bust in 2001. We compare ICT graduates with engineer…
Why Do So Many Children of Immigrants Attend University? Evidence for Canada
The Role of University Characteristics in Determining Post-Graduation Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Canadian Cohorts
À partir des cohortes de l’Enquête nationale auprès des diplômés, nous analysons les revenus des Canadiens détenteurs d’un baccalauréat cinq ans après l’obtention de leur diplôme. Nos résultats montrent qu’il y a un lien important entre les revenus et l’université qui décerne le diplôme, puisque nous observons des corrélations entre les revenus et les caractéristiques des universités fréquentées. Par exemple, le nombre plus élevé d’étudiants de p…
The Redistributional Impact of Canada's Employment Insurance Program, 1992–2002
For a decade or so starting in the early 1990s, Canada’s major income support programs underwent substantial reform. Meanwhile, the economy first lingered in a deep recession and then recovered with a period of strong growth. This paper focuses on how the distributional impact of Employment Insurance (EI) evolved during this period. We find that EI was strongly redistributive throughout the whole period with respect to the earnings of individuals…
Welfare Policy, Language Group, and the Duration of Lone Motherhood Spells
We use a large sample of linked income tax records to estimate a competing risk model of the likelihood of an exit from lone motherhood to either a marital or common-law union. We find that recent Canadian welfare policy reforms have had only a small impact at most on the duration of lone motherhood spells. Lone mothers in Francophone Quebec and in the rest of Canada exit to different states, but spend similar lengths of time as single parents. F…
The school-to-work transition of Canadian post-secondary graduates: A Dynamic Analysis
This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the school‐to‐work transition of Canadian post‐secondary graduates based on three waves of the National Graduates Surveys, representing those who successfully completed their programmes at Canadian colleges and universities in 1982, 1986, and 1990. Information was gathered during interviews conducted two and five years after graduation for each group, thus facilitating a dynamic analysis …
Women, men, and the economic consequences of divorce: Evidence from Canadian longitudinal data
Cet article présente les résultats d'une analyse empirique des conséquences économiques du divorce utilisant la banque de données Longitudinal Administrative Database ( lad ). Cette banque de données a été construite à partir des déclarations de revenus pour fin d'impǒt de canadiens ayant vécu un divorce. Tant la période précédent le divorce que la période měme du divorce et celle le suivant sont couvertes par la banque. Cette étude du divorce es…
Child Support: The Guideline Options
Family Matters: New Policies for Divorce, Lone Mothers, and Child Poverty
The Negotiation Diaries
Is It Worth Doing a Science or Technology Degree in Canada? Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications
This paper looks at the early careers of science and technology graduates in Canada using three waves of the National Graduates Surveys. Employment rates, earnings levels, job satisfaction, the job-education skill match, and the overall evaluation of the education program are studied in order to evaluate the attractiveness of careers in science and technology and the degree to which these graduates' skills and talents are being efficiently utiliz…
From School to Work: The Evolution of Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates
Ross Finnie, From School to Work: The Evolution of Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 197-224
Minorities, Cognitive Skills and Incomes of Canadians
This paper uses the Statistics Canada Survey of Literacy Skills in Daily Use (LSUDA) to investigate minority-white income differences and the role cognitive skills play in those patterns.Some minority groups have substantially lower (tested) levels of literacy and numeracy skills than whites and other more economically successful minorities, and in the case of certain male groups these differences play a significant role in explaining the observe…
Student Loans, Student Financial Aid and Post-secondary Education in Canada
This paper begins by briefly describing Canada's student loan system, including the typical costs of a year of post-secondary schooling and the levels of financial support available. It then reports the results of an empirical analysis that shows that borrowing remains at reasonable levels and repayment difficulties are still relatively uncommon. Various reforms are then suggested, including higher borrowing limits, wider eligibility, and more as…
Earnings Variability and Earnings Instability of Women and Men in Canada: How Do the 1990s Compare to the 1980s
Charles M. Beach, Ross Finnie, David Gray, Earnings Variability and Earnings Instability of Women and Men in Canada: How Do the 1990s Compare to the 1980s?, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 29, Supplement: The Linkages between Economic Growth and Inequality (Jan., 2003), pp. S41-S63
The school-to-work transition of Canadian post-secondary graduates: A Dynamic Analysis
This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the school‐to‐work transition of Canadian post‐secondary graduates based on three waves of the National Graduates Surveys, representing those who successfully completed their programmes at Canadian colleges and universities in 1982, 1986, and 1990. Information was gathered during interviews conducted two and five years after graduation for each group, thus facilitating a dynamic analysis …
Welfare Policy, Language Group, and the Duration of Lone Motherhood Spells
We use a large sample of linked income tax records to estimate a competing risk model of the likelihood of an exit from lone motherhood to either a marital or common-law union. We find that recent Canadian welfare policy reforms have had only a small impact at most on the duration of lone motherhood spells. Lone mothers in Francophone Quebec and in the rest of Canada exit to different states, but spend similar lengths of time as single parents. F…
The Redistributional Impact of Canada's Employment Insurance Program, 1992–2002
For a decade or so starting in the early 1990s, Canada’s major income support programs underwent substantial reform. Meanwhile, the economy first lingered in a deep recession and then recovered with a period of strong growth. This paper focuses on how the distributional impact of Employment Insurance (EI) evolved during this period. We find that EI was strongly redistributive throughout the whole period with respect to the earnings of individuals…
Access to post-secondary education: The importance of culture
The Role of University Characteristics in Determining Post-Graduation Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Canadian Cohorts
À partir des cohortes de l’Enquête nationale auprès des diplômés, nous analysons les revenus des Canadiens détenteurs d’un baccalauréat cinq ans après l’obtention de leur diplôme. Nos résultats montrent qu’il y a un lien important entre les revenus et l’université qui décerne le diplôme, puisque nous observons des corrélations entre les revenus et les caractéristiques des universités fréquentées. Par exemple, le nombre plus élevé d’étudiants de p…
Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Amongst the Retired Population: An Analysis of the Incidence
Dans cet article, nous évaluons le taux d’incidence, chez les Canadiens de 65 ans et plus, du fait d’être bénéficiaire de prestations de la Sécurité de la vieillesse. La variable dépendante que nous modélisons est le taux d’incidence du fait d’être bénéficiaire de prestations de Supplément de revenu garanti (SRG). Nous estimons des équations multivariées afin de déterminer les effets de l’âge, de la cohorte, du statut matrimonial, de la province …
A Longitudinal Analysis of GIS Entries and Exits
We focus on one particular pillar of the public retirement income network in Canada, namely, receipt outcomes of the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) regime. This empirical analysis is carried out in a dynamic framework. We address the extent to which individuals enter the state of GIS receipt at various ages as well as the extent to which individuals who receive GIS benefits at the earliest age of eligibility subsequently exit the regime. We f…
Why Do So Many Children of Immigrants Attend University? Evidence for Canada
How Do Older Laid-Off Workers Get By: Reemployment, Early Retirement, or Social Insurance Benefits
We investigate the post-layoff configuration of income sources and pathways of prime-age and older laid-off workers exhibiting a high degree of prior attachment. Using a unique Canadian administrative database that links the event of the involuntary layoff with detailed data on income receipt, we track all of their sources of income over an interval spanning five years after layoff. We conduct a multivariate statistical analysis of the incidence …
Information and Communication Technology Talent: The Skills We Need—Framing the Issues
This article provides a conceptual framework for discussing information and communication technology (ICT) skills shortages in a context in which having a sufficient supply of skilled ICT workers—both inside the ICT sector and more broadly—is critical to the performance of the Canadian economy. We start with an outline of a simple model of how ICT skills shortages might be manifested in labour market signals, such as rising wages, and then how, i…
Who Goes into STEM Disciplines? Evidence from the Youth in Transition Survey
This article presents an empirical analysis of access to post-secondary education (PSE) as it pertains to students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs, who are vital to the nation’s economic performance, especially with respect to its information and communication technology (ICT) sector. The analysis is based on the rich Youth in Transition Survey, Cohort A (YITS–A), which follows a representative sample of Canad…
Earnings of University Bachelor’s Degree Graduates in Information and Communication Technology Programs: A Tax Data Analysis
This article presents an analysis of the labour market earnings of university graduates with bachelor’s degrees in information and communication technology (ICT) programs using a dataset that links information on students from the University of Ottawa to tax records held at Statistics Canada. We track each cohort of graduates from 1998 through 2010, thus covering the dot-com boom and subsequent bust in 2001. We compare ICT graduates with engineer…
Evolution of Gender Patterns in Retirement Saving in Canada
Une préoccupation persistante au sujet des personnes âgées est leur capacité à maintenir leur bienêtre économique après leur retraite. Dans une large mesure, ce sont les décisions d’épargne prises pendant les années précédant la retraite qui financent la consommation pendant les années de retraite. Les disparités entre les sexes en ce qui concerne les gains sur le marché du travail et les régimes de retraite financés par l’employeur, de même que …
Political science (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (7 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works)