Returns to Apprenticeship Based on the 2006 Canadian Census

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3196256
AutoresMorley Gunderson (0000-0002-2261-8827), Harry Krashinsky (0000-0002-9452-6462, Institute for Human Development, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume68
Fascículo5
Páginas1078-1101
Data de publicação2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0019793915591990
OpenAlexW2261933449
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas14

To study the effect of apprenticeships in Canada, the authors use the 2006 Census, the first large-scale, representative Canadian data set to include information on apprenticeship certification. They find large returns for males with an apprenticeship certification when compared with no degree, a high school degree, or a trade certificate; these returns are almost as high as those to a community college diploma. By contrast, the returns for females who hold an apprenticeship certification are generally less than the returns to any other educational certification, except for no degree. For both genders, differences in observable characteristics account for little of the overall pay differences between apprentices and the alternative educational pathways, and the patterns tend to prevail across the quantiles of the pay distributions and for instrumental variable (IV) estimates

Actuarial science · Apprenticeship · Business · Census · Certificate · Certification · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Instrumental variable · Management · Population · Quantile · Sociology · Computer Science · Demography · Education Systems and Policy · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics