Cohort size and youth earnings: Evidence from a quasi-experiment.

Autor/in	Morin, Louis-Philippe
Titel	Cohort size and youth earnings: Evidence from a quasi-experiment. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kohortengröße und Löhne von Jugendlichen: Erkenntnisse aus einem Quasi-Experiment.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2015) 32, S. 99-111 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2015.01.001
Schlagwörter	Schulreform; Sekundarstufe II; Einkommenseffekt; Lohnhöhe; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Auswirkung; Quote; Abiturient; Jugendlicher; Schulabgänger; Kanada; Ontario
Abstract	"In this paper, I use data from the Canadian Labour Force Surveys (LFS), and the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses to estimate the impact of an important labour supply shock on the earnings of young high-school graduates. The abolition of Ontario's Grade 13 generated a very large cohort of high-school graduates that simultaneously entered the Ontario labour market, generating a sudden increase in the labour supply. This provides a rare occasion to measure the impact of cohort size on earnings without the supply shock being possibly confounded with unobserved trends - a recurring problem in the literature. The Census findings suggest that the effect of the supply shock is statistically and economically important, depressing weekly earnings by 5 to 9%. The findings from the Census are supported by the LFS results that suggest that the immediate impact of the supply shock - measured about six months after high-school graduation - is also important." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/3