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In this article, we examine multidimensional aspects of job quality in Canada. Six broad dimensions of job quality were assessed: income and benefits, career prospects, work intensity, working-time quality, skills and discretion, and social environment. Results from both descriptive and latent class analysis reveal a great deal of variation in job quality across sectors and socio-demographic groups. In particular, we found that some of the largest labour market segments, such as hospitality and personal services, are associated with many negative job features. Moreover, workers with atypical contracts or in part-time employment have many disadvantages in the workplace other than being low-paid.

ObjectiveThis article examines social mobility among the children of immigrants, whose population has become increasingly diverse over time.MethodsUsing data from Canadian censuses, we focus on group differences by racial minority status in two aspects: (1) intergenerational progress in educational attainment, which indicates the ability to achieve higher education regardless of parents' education, and (2) the relationship between education and labor market outcomes, which reveals the ability to convert educational qualifications into economic well‐being.ResultsOur analysis in general paints a very positive picture for the children of immigrants regarding the first aspect, while mixed results are evident for the second aspect. In particular, some racial minority groups are characterized by high educational attainment and average earnings, while some experienced low education mobility across generations and low labor market returns to education.ConclusionThe results suggest that there are divergent paths of socioeconomic integration among the second‐generation racial minority groups.

This article offers a cross-country overview of child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. Levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the 1990s are documented using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and a decomposition analysis is used to uncover the relative role of demographic factors, labor markets, and income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of the changes. Child poverty rates fell noticeably in only three countries and rose in three others. In no country were demographic factors a force for higher child poverty rates, but these factors were also limited in their ability to cushion children from adverse shocks originating in the labor market or the government sector. Increases in the labor market engagement of mothers consistently lowered child poverty rates, while decreases in the employment rates and earnings of fathers were a force for higher rates. Finally, there is no single road to lower child poverty rates. Reforms to income transfers intended to increase labor supply may or may not end up lowering the child poverty rate.

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 13 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty rates, holding other demographic and labour market factors constant. As such the paper offers a cross-country overview of child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe.

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty rates, holding other demographic and labour market factors constant. As such the paper offers a cross-country overview of child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe.

AbstractThis study examines the impact of executives' overseas background on corporate green innovation and the possible adverse selection problem in attracting overseas‐returned executives to high‐polluted cities. Based on the data from Chinese listed companies between 2002 and 2018, we empirically find that executives' overseas background has a significantly positive impact on corporate green innovation. In addition, it is found that air pollution results in the loss of overseas‐returned executives, while the effect of executives' overseas background in stimulating corporate green innovation is more prominent in high‐polluted cities, indicating that high‐polluted cities should make more efforts to attract returnees. Therefore, we further explore the policy influence of executives' excess compensation and find that excess compensation in high‐polluted cities weakens the positive impact of executives' overseas background, although it increases the effectiveness of importing overseas‐returned executives, which means that the adverse selection caused by excess compensation in high‐polluted cities is non‐negligible.

AbstractBased on theoretical analysis and both the digital economy development index and the FinTech development index, we use a time and individual two‐way fixed effects model to study the impact of the digital economy on FinTech, and the mechanism at work. Our results show that the digital economy can promote FinTech development and that this development level will increase by 12.4117 standard deviations each time the development level of the digital economy increases by one standard deviation. The underlying mechanism is that the digital economy augments the level of technological innovation to promote FinTech development; the digital economy enhances the FinTech development level by improving the quality of credit assets. Further research shows that the digital economy's promotion effect on FinTech is heterogeneous, given the proportion of agricultural loans: the higher the proportion of agricultural loans, the lower the digital economy's promotion effect on FinTech.