Returns to Apprenticeship Based on the 2006 Canadian Census

Bibliographic Data

ID3196256
AuthorsMorley Gunderson (0000-0002-2261-8827), Harry Krashinsky (0000-0002-9452-6462, Institute for Human Development, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume68
Issue5
Pages1078-1101
Publication date2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0019793915591990
OpenAlexW2261933449
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

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