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Economics for public policy

Miles Corak writes on economics that matters

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  • My research
    • Great Gatsby Curve
    • Income mobility
      • Asia Pacific
      • Australia
      • Canada
      • Canada and the United States
        • The American Dream
        • Reaching the middle class
        • Intergenerational mobility is lower in the US
        • Equality of opportunity is a choice
      • North America and Europe
    • Inequality
  • My teaching
    • Economic Opportunity
      • Introduction
      • Lecture 1
      • Lecture 2
      • Lecture 3
      • Lecture 4
      • Lecture 5
      • Lecture 6
      • Lecture 7
      • Lecture 8
      • Lecture 10
      • Lecture 11
      • Lecture 12
      • Lecture 13
    • Economics for Everyone
      • Welcome
      • Lecture 1
      • Lecture 2
      • Lecture 3
      • Lecture 4 and 5
      • Lecture 6 and 7
      • Lecture 8
      • Lecture 9
      • Lecture 10
      • Lecture 11
    • Labour Economics
      • Introduction
      • Lecture 1
      • Lecture 2
      • Lecture 3
      • Lecture 4

Lecture 3

LABOUR SUPPLY ON THE EXTENSIVE MARGIN: THE PARTICIPATION DECISION

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My name is Miles Corak. I am a professor with The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, trained in labour economics, and working on child rights, poverty, immigration, social and economic mobility, unemployment, and social policy.

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  • Discussion papers
  • Canadian geography of intergenerational mobility
  • Intergenerational Mobility: What do we care about?
  • Intergenerational Mobility Canada and the US
  • ‘Inequality is the root of social evil,’ or Maybe Not?
  • Too Many Children Left Behind
  • Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility
  • Economic mobility in the US and Canada
  • Income mobility in North America and Europe
  • Intergenerational mobility in Canada, Sweden, and the US
  • Immigration in the long run
  • Intergenerational transmission of employers
  • Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting
  • From Parents to Children
  • Age at immigration & child migrants to the US
  • Young immigrant children in Australia, Canada, the UK & the US
  • How to Slide down the Great Gatsby Curve
  • Unemployment Insurance
  • Intergenerational transmission of education among immigrants

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