The June 2022 issue of Economic and Social Reports is now available and contains three articles.
Parents' knowledge of child care licensing status
Around 20 to 30% of Canadian parents believe the child care they use is regulated when it may not be. This is one of the findings from a new study, "Accuracy of parental perceptions about licensed child care in Canada," that examines the accuracy of parental responses to the 2019 Survey on Early Learning and Child Care.
Around 80% of parents accurately reported the regulated status of their centre-based child care, compared with 49% of parents who used home-based services. However, those who reported using unregulated care were more accurate than those who reported using regulated care. Parents of children aged 1 to 3 years were more accurate than parents of children aged 4 to 5 years or than parents with infants. Higher levels of parental education and household income were associated with more accurate responses.
Knowing the regulated status of care is important for parental decision-making, as regulation may be associated with higher quality of care and better outcomes for children and families.
Post-secondary education after job loss
As labour markets in Canada and around the world witness advances in robotics and artificial intelligence, some jobs face a growing risk of being lost or transformed due to automation. In this context, it is important to understand how displaced workers in various types of families, such as couples or lone parents, cope with job loss, for example by returning to school after being laid off.
The study "Entering postsecondary education after job loss: Family-level considerations" shows that the propensity of displaced workers to enter postsecondary education after job loss is fairly similar across family types. The types of educational program selected and their duration also appear fairly similar across family types. Taken together, these findings do not support the hypothesis that post-displacement transitions into postsecondary education are a "luxury" that only certain types of families can afford.
Pre-landing Canadian earnings the best predictor of post-immigration earnings
The article "Immigration selection factors and the earnings of economic principal applicants" summarizes the findings of a new study by Statistics Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada that updates a previous report on the relative importance of immigrant selection criteria in predicting earnings of economic immigrants in Canada.
The report found that the level of pre-landing Canadian earnings of temporary foreign workers or international students, a factor that was not considered in the earlier report and not included in the current immigration selection factors, was the most effective predictor of post-immigration earnings in the short and medium term. While the predictive power of this factor declined with years in Canada, it still remained one of the strongest factors in the longer term.
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The June 2022 issue of Economic and Social Reports, Vol. 2, no. 6 (36280001) is now available. This issue contains the articles "Immigration selection factors and the earnings of economic principal applicants," "Accuracy of parental perceptions about licensed child care in Canada" and "Entering postsecondary education after job loss: Family-level considerations."
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