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Record W3122439889 · doi:10.20381/ruor-25559

Quality of Work Experience and Economic Development - Estimates using Canadian Immigrant Data

2011· preprint· en· W3122439889 on OpenAlexaffabout
Serge Coulombe, Gilles Grenier, Serge Nadeau

Bibliographic record

VenueuO Research (University of Ottawa) · 2011
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMigration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsImmigrationEarningsQuality (philosophy)Per capitaWork (physics)Human capitalEconomicsCensusDemographic economicsWork experiencePer capita incomeLabour economicsEconomic growthDevelopment economicsGeographySociology

Abstract

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There is increasing evidence in the economic development literature that the quality of schooling considerably varies across countries that are at different stages in their economic development. However, an issue that has been overlooked is the role of the quality of work experience in explaining differences in economic development. This paper uses Canadian census data on immigrant earnings to show that per capita GDP in the country of origin can be used as a quality indicator for both education and work experience. Coefficients estimated from immigrant earnings regressions are then used to estimate the effects of difference in human capital quality on development gaps between rich and poor countries. The analysis shows that while differences in the quality of schooling account for substantial differences in living standards across countries, differences in the quality of work experience can account for even more. Policywise, our results suggest that the immediate effects of improving the quality and the quantity of schooling in less-developed countries might be rather limited if labour-market institutions and ways of doing things are not changed at the same time to improve the quality of work experience. / La littérature sur le développement économique reconnait de plus en plus que la qualité de l’éducation varie considérablement d’un pays à l’autre selon le stade de développement. Cependant, une question qui a été ignorée jusqu’à maintenant est la contribution de la qualité de l’expérience de travail à l’explication des écarts de niveaux de vie entre les pays. L’analyse présentée dans ce document utilise des données canadiennes de recensement sur les salaires des immigrants pour montrer que le PIB par habitant du pays d’origine peut être utilisé comme indicateur de qualité pour l’éducation et l’expérience de travail acquises dans ce pays. Les coefficients estimés à partir d’équations de régression des salaires des immigrants sont ainsi utilisés pour mesurer les effets de différences de qualité de capital humain sur les écarts de niveaux de vie entre les pays riches et les pays pauvres. Les résultats montrent que quoique la qualité de l’éducation soit un déterminant majeur des écarts de niveaux de vie, la qualité de l’expérience de travail est encore plus importante du point de vue quantitatif. En ce qui concerne les politiques de développement économique, les résultats de notre analyse donnent à penser que les bénéfices à court terme d’augmenter la qualité et la quantité de scolarité dans les pays pauvres sont plutôt faibles si les institutions et les façons de faire sur les marchés du travail ne sont pas en même temps changées pour améliorer la qualité de l’expérience de travail.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.091

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.009
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.318
GPT teacher head0.406
Teacher spread0.089 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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