Miles Corak writes on economics that matters

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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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Canada's official poverty line: what is it? how could it be better?
Here is the source for the "Great Gatsby Curve" in the Alan Krueger speech at the Center for American Progress on January 12
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Poor children are twice as likely to grow up to be poor adults in some Canadian communities than in others
Immigrants face challenges in finding jobs that are not of their own making
If there is such a thing as the "Canadian Dream," it would look very much like what Americans say is the "American Dream"

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