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Overcoming obstacles to innovation: Can an educated workforce help? Open

Benoît Dostie, Lene Kromann, Anders Sørensen · 2025

Firms face many obstacles in their pursuit of innovation. However, the mechanisms that enable firms to surmount these challenges and foster innovation are less understood. This study thus investigates whether the better performance of firm…

PROJET STRUCTURANT: Programmation de recherche à portée gouvernementale (PRPG) sur les politiques publiques et le marché de l’emploi Open

Benoît Dostie, Geneviève Dufour, Fabian Lange · 2025

Le projet structurant sur l’état du marché du travail au Québec a pour objectif de délimiter six différents axes de la programmation de recherche de la PRPG (participation au marché du travail, immigration, enseignement et éducation, innov…

Graying and staying on the job: The welfare implications of employment protection for older workers Open

Todd Morris, Benoît Dostie · 2023

We study the welfare implications of employment protection for older workers, exploiting recent bans on mandatory retirement across Canadian provinces. Using linked employeremployee tax data, we show that the bans cause large and similar r…

Job Attributes and Occupational Changes: A Shift-Share Decomposition by Gender and Age Group for Canada, 2006–2016 Open

Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Benoît Dostie, Geneviève Dufour · 2023

Les changements technologiques ont deux effets de premier ordre sur la nature du travail. Premièrement, les nouvelles technologies peuvent entraîner des changements au sein des professions des personnes sur le marché du travail, et, deuxiè…

Graying and Staying on the Job: The Welfare Implications of Employment Protection for Older Workers Open

Todd Morris, Benoît Dostie · 2023

Earnings Gaps between Native-Born Canadians and Immigrants: The Role of Firms in British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec Open

Benoît Dostie, Jiang Li, Daniel Parent · 2022

A growing literature shows that earnings differentials are explained in part by the fact that workers from different groups sort differently into high-paying and low-paying firms or are paid differently within the same firm. In this articl…

Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap: The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status Open

Jiang Li, Benoît Dostie, Gaëlle Simard‐Duplain · 2022

Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, the authors examine the impact of firms’ hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature …

Firms, sorting, and the immigrant–native earnings gap Open

Benoît Dostie · 2022

Recent research has tried to quantify how firms contribute to the immigrant–native earnings gap. Findings from several countries show that around 20% of the gap is due to firm policies that lead to a systematic underrepresentation of immig…

Introduction - Des compétences pour s’adapter à la transformation du marché du travail Open

Geneviève Dufour, Benoît Dostie, Catherine Haeck · 2022

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Documenter l’évolution de la demande des compétences liée aux STIM Open

Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Benoît Dostie, Geneviève Dufour · 2022

Quel est l’impact des changements technologiques sur la demande de compétences ? Qu’en est-il pour les compétences plus particulièrement liées aux professions STIM ? Pour le déterminer, nous apparions les données occupationnelles des Recen…

Évolution de la demande de compétences entre 2006 et 2016. Open

Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Benoît Dostie, Geneviève Dufour · 2022

Conclusion - Enjeux du marché du travail et compétences : pistes de réflexion pour le futur Open

Benoît Dostie, Geneviève Dufour, Catherine Haeck · 2022

Applying Data Synthesis for Longitudinal Business Data across Three Countries Open

M. Jahangir Alam, Benoît Dostie, Jörg Drechsler, Lars Vilhuber · 2020

Data on businesses collected by statistical agencies are challenging to protect.Many businesses have unique characteristics, and distributions of employment,sales, and profits are highly skewed. Attackers wishing to conduct identificationa…

Applying Data Synthesis for Longitudinal Business Data across Three Countries Open

M. Jahangir Alam, Benoît Dostie, Jörg Drechsler, Lars Vilhuber · 2020

Data on businesses collected by statistical agencies are challenging to protect.Many businesses have unique characteristics, and distributions of employment,sales, and profits are highly skewed. Attackers wishing to conduct identificationa…

Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap Open

Benoît Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card, Daniel Parent · 2020

We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early…

Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer–Employee Data Open

Benoît Dostie, Mohsen Javdani · 2020

Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study, we use longitudinal Canadian linked employer–employee data to examine whether white/visible minority immigrants and Canadia…

RAPPORT DU DIRECTEUR DE L’ACTUALITÉ ÉCONOMIQUE Open

Benoît Dostie · 2020

What is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada? Open

Jiang Li, Benoît Dostie, Gaëlle Simard‐Duplain · 2020

What is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada? Open

Jiang Li, Benoît Dostie, Gaëlle Simard‐Duplain · 2020

Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? Open

Benoît Dostie · 2020

Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the majority of costs for training, shouldn’t they also benefit? Empirical evidence shows that this is in fact the case. Firm-spons…

Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data Open

Benoît Dostie, Mohsen Javdani · 2019

Immigrant Careers and Networks Open

Benoît Dostie · 2018

Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data Open

Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoît Dostie, Robert M. Gagné, Jonathan Paré · 2018

In this paper, we use linked employer-employee administrative tax data from Canada to estimate the impact of payroll taxes on a variety of firms and workers outcomes. At the firm level, we use geographic and time variations in tax rates to…

Estimating the Impacts of Payroll Taxes: Evidence from Canadian Employer-Employee Tax Data Open

Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoît Dostie, Robert M. Gagné, Jonathan Paré · 2018

Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors Open

Benoît Dostie, Mohsen Javdani · 2017

We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less likely to receive classroom training, and …

Not for the Profit, But for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors Open

Benoît Dostie, Mohsen Javdani · 2017

SSH volume 40 issue 3 Cover and Back matter Open

Brian E. Conway, Ileen A. DeVault, Benoît Dostie, Ruth Dupré, Anders Ottosson , et al. · 2016

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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? Open

Benoît Dostie · 2015

Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the majority of costs for training, shouldn't they also benefit? Empirical evidence shows that this is in fact the case. Firm-spons…

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