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How Much Do They Make? New Evidence on the Early Career Earnings of Canadian PostSecondary Education Graduates by Credential & Field of Study
by Finnie, R., Miyairi, M., Dubois, M., Bonen, T. and Amery, B.
Published by Education Policy Research Initiative in partnership with Labour Market Information Council
The Education Policy Research Initiative (EPRI), in partnership with the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC), has leveraged Statistics Canada’s new Education and Labour Market Longitudinal Platform (ELMLP) to provide new and unique information on post-secondary education (PSE) graduates’ early labour market outcomes over the period 2011 through 2015. This project builds on the success of the earlier Barista or Better project. by providing an analysis that is comprehensive in scope, including all graduates from all publicly funded PSE institutions across the country and covering 6 major credentials, ranging from college-level certificates to advanced university degrees, as well as by 11 fields of study within each credential. Furthermore, a companion interactive dashboard allows users to explore earnings patterns across all credentials and fields of study according to their own interests and needs
URL: https://lmic-cimt.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LMIC_How-Much-Do-They-Make-Research-Report.pdf
Biography
Behnoush Amery is a Labour Economist who has conducted quantitative analyses on labour market outcomes of students, job-related training, employment insurance, social assistance, and women; specifically income gender gap. She is a senior economist at Labour Market Information Council (LMIC) leading a variety of research projects and also working as a part-time professor at the Business School of George Brown College. Amery previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development. She has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s of Science in Economics from Shahid Beheshti University located in Iran, a Master’s of Arts in Labour Economics from Concordia University, and a PhD in Labour Economics from the University of Waterloo.