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1 MILES CORAK University of Ottawa Canadian Citizen 120 University, Room 6029 Languages: English (fluent) Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 French (functional) Canada Italian (minimal) Office: ext 4548 Fax: Internet: EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2007 to present FULL PROFESSOR Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada [ tenure granted 2009 ] 2010 to 2011 VICE-DEAN RESEARCH Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada 1999 to 2007 DIRECTOR Family and Labour Studies Division Statistics Canada Ottawa Canada 2003 to 2004 VISITING RESEARCHER UNICEF, Innocenti Research Centre Florence Italy Project co-ordinator and lead researcher, Report Card on Child Poverty in the OECD Initiate, develop, and manage a project on child poverty and the consequences of child poverty in the OECD countries 1991 to 1998 SENIOR ECONOMIST Business and Labour Market Analysis Division Analytical Studies Branch Statistics Canada Ottawa Canada

2 PART TIME INSTRUCTOR Department of Economics University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada 1988 to 1991 RESEARCH ECONOMIST Economic Council of Canada Ottawa, Canada 1986 (Summer) RESEARCH ECONOMIST International Department Bank of Canada Ottawa, Canada 1985 to 1988 RESEARCH / TEACHING ASSISTANT Queen's University Kingston, Canada 1984 to 1985 LECTURER IN ECONOMICS Trent University Peterborough, Canada EDUCATION 1995 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Economics Queen's University Kingston, Canada Thesis: Traps and vicious Circles: A Longitudinal Analysis of Participation in the Canadian Unemployment Insurance Program 1985 MASTER OF ARTS Department of Economics McGill University Montreal, Canada 1983 BACHELOR OF ARTS Joint Honours, Departments of Economics and Political Science McGill University Montreal, Canada

3 3 AFFILIATIONS, VISITING APPOINTMENTS, OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1. Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, September 2013-June Visiting Researcher, Office of Population Research, Princeton University January- June Visiting Professor, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University of London, Summer Research Fellow, Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation and Policy Network of the Human Capital and Opportunity Working Group, Becker-Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago 5. Research Advisor, Canada 2020, Ottawa 6. Research Fellow of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal Canada, April 2011 for a two-year term. 7. Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn Germany. 8. Research Fellow, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, United States. 9. Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, London UK. 10. Research Fellow, CD Howe Institute, Toronto Canada. 11. Co-chair (former), Canadian Employment Research Forum. 12. Member (former), Council, European Society for Population Economics. 13. Research Associate (former), Canadian International Labour Network. 14. Member (former), Policy and Research Advisory Council, The Learning Partnership 15. Committee Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral Awards National Committee, Program Committee Member, 2012, 2011, 2010 Annual Congress of the European Society for Population Economics. STUDENT SUPERVISION 1. External Examiner, PhD Thesis by Susan Niknami (2012). Essays on Inequality and Social Policy: Education, Crime, and Health. Swedish Institute for Social Research. Stockholm University. (Supervisor Eskil Wadensjö). 2. External Examiner, PhD Thesis by Gerry Redmond (2010). Considering the Adequacy of Australian Children s Living Standards: Economic Welfare, Capabilities, and Social Exclusion approaches compared. The University of New South Wales, Graduate Research School, Sydney Australia. (Supervisor Peter Saunders).

4 4 3. External Examiner, PhD Thesis by Eva Österbacka (2004). It Runs in the Family: Empirical Analyses of Family Background and Economic Status. Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland. (Supervisor Markus Jäntti). 4. External Examiner, PhD Thesis by Aneta Bonikowska (2008). Intergenerational Adaptation of Immigrants. University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. (Supervisor David Green). 5. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Kitley Corey (2009), Poverty Definition and Measurement: The Opportunities and Challenges Faced by Canadian Governments. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. April. 6. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Ive Delahousse (2009), The Effect of Age at Immigration on Employment Income. Department of Economics, University of Ottawa. April. 7. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Ali Akbar Ghanghro (2009), Intergenerational Mobility and Subjective Well-Being. Department of Economics, University of Otttawa. August. 8. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Dela Hoyi (2009), Inequalities in the Regional Distribution of Employment Insurance Benefits in Canada. Department of Economics, University of Ottawa. December. 9. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Bridget Spicer (2010). Financing Unemployment Insurance in Canada, 1940 to 2008: Theory and Practice. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. April. 10. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Adriana Escobar (2011). Language acquisition and Earnings Differential among Immigrants in Canada. Department of Economics, University of Ottawa. August. 11. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Heather Scott (2012). Social Policy, How do we know what works: The case of Progresa. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, December. 12. Supervisor, MA Major Paper by Ashton Brown (2013). The Effects of Early Cognitive Scores and Childhood ADHD on Young-Adult Outcomes. Department of Economics, University of Ottawa. August. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 1. Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 27, Number 3, Summer, Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants, Canadian Public Policy, Volume 39(S1), , May. (With Abdurrahman Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen)

5 5 3. Age at Immigration and the Adult Attainments of Child Migrants to the United States (2012). The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Volume 643, Number 1 (September), pages (With Audrey Beck and Marta Tienda). 4. The Development of Young Children of Immigrants in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States (2012). Child Development. Volume 83, Number 5 (September/October), pages (With Elizabeth Washbrook, Jane Waldfogel, Bruce Bradbury, Ali Akbar Ghanghro). 5. The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. (2010). Journal of Labor Economics. Volume 29, Number 1 (January), pages (With Patrizio Piraino). 6. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants (2009). Review of Economics and Statistics. Volume 91, Number 2 (May), pages (With Abdurrahman Aydemir and Wen-Hao Chen). 7. Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: the role of class size and time-in-term (2009). Economics of Education Review. Volume 28, Number 2 (April), pages (With Darren Lauzon). 8. A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany (2008). Review of Income and Wealth. Volume 54, Number 4 (December), pages (With Michael Fertig and Marcus Tamm). 9. Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty (2008). Demography. Volume 45, Number 3 (August), pages (With Wen-Hao Chen). 10. Firms, Industries, and Cross-Subsidies: An analysis of Employer and Employee Data (2007). Research in Labor Economics. Vol. 26 Aspects of Worker Well- Being. The Netherlands: Elsevier Press. Pages (With Wen-Hao Chen). 11. Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons for Public Policy from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility (2006). Research on Economic Inequality. Volume 13, Dynamics of Inequality. The Netherlands: Elsevier Press. Pages Principles and Practicalities in Measuring Child Poverty for the Rich Countries. (2006). International Social Security Review. Volume 59, Number 2 (April-June), pages Death and Divorce: The Long-Term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents (2001). Journal of Labor Economics. Volume 19, Number 3 (July), pages

6 6 14. The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data (1999). Journal of Human Resources. Volume 34, Number 3 (Summer), pages (With Andrew Heisz). 15. The Labour Market Dynamics of Unemployment Rates in Canada and the United States (1998). Canadian Public Policy. Volume 24, Supplement 1 (February), pages S72-S89. (With Michael Baker and Andrew Heisz). 16. Alternative Measures of the Average Duration of Unemployment (1996). Review of Income and Wealth. Series 42, Number 1 (March), pages (With Andrew Heisz). 17. The Persistence of Unemployment: How Important were Regional Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits? (1995). Canadian Journal of Economics. Volume 28, Number 3 (August), pages (With Stephen R. G. Jones). 18. Unemployment Insurance Once Again: The Incidence of Repeat Participation in the Canadian Unemployment Insurance Program (1993). Canadian Public Policy. Volume 19, Number 2 (June), pages Cyclical Variations in the Duration of Unemployment Spells (1993). Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations. Volume 48, Number 1 (April), pages Is Unemployment Insurance Addictive? Evidence from the Benefit Durations of Repeat Claimants (1993). Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Volume 47, Number 1 (October), pages Eligibility Rules in the Canadian Jobs Strategy: Shifting the Burden or Targeting the Assistance? (1991). Canadian Public Policy. Volume 17, Number 1 (March), pages BOOKS AND CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES 1. The Intergenerational transmission of employers in Canada and Denmark. (2012). In John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. (With Niels Westergård-Nielsen and Paul Bingley.) 2. Early child outcomes and parental resources in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. In John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation. (With Bruce Bradbury, Jane Waldfogel, and Liz Washbrook).

7 7 3. Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison. (2012). In Robert Rycroft (editor), The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century, ABC-CLIO. In press, publication date February Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children. (2012). In Ann Masten, Karmela Liebkind and Donald J. Hernandez (editors). The Potential of Immigrant Youth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 5. Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada. (2011). In Timothy Smeeding, Markus Jantti, and Robert Erickson (editors). Persitence, Privledge and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation. Pages (With Lori Curtis and Shelley Phipps). 6. Family income and participation in post-secondary education (2005). In Charles Beach, Robin Boadway, and Marvin McInnis (editors). Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: John Deutsch Institute and McGill-Queen s Press. (With Garth Lipps and John Zhao). 7. Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe (2004). Miles Corak (editor). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 8. Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden (2004). In Miles Corak (editor). Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (With Björn Gustafsson and Torun Österberg). 9. Are the Kids All Right: Intergenerational Mobility and Child Well-Being in Canada. (2001). In Keith Banting, Andrew Sharpe. and France St-Hilaire (editors). Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Montreal and Ottawa: Institute for Research on Public Policy and Centre for the Study of Living Standards. 10. Government Finances and Generational Equity (1998). Miles Corak (editor). Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Catalogue Number XPB. 11. Labour Markets, Social Institutions, and the Future of Canada s Children (1998). Miles Corak (editor). Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Catalogue Number XPB. [Abridged version of the introduction published as Long Term Prospects of the Young, Canadian Economic Observer, Statistics Canada Catalogue No , January 1999, pp ] 12. How to Get Ahead in Life: Some Correlates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada (1997). In Miles Corak (editor). Labour Markets, Social

8 8 Institutions, and the Future of Canada s Children. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, Catalogue Number XPB. (With Andrew Heisz). [Abridged version published as How Children Get Ahead in Life: Does Money Matter? (1998). Policy Options/Options Politiques. Vol. 19 No. 7 (September), pp ; and as Getting Ahead in Life: Does your Parents Income Count? Canadian Social Trends, Summer 1998.] 13. Unemployment Insurance, Work Disincentives, and the Canadian Labour Market: An Overview (1994). In Christopher Green, Fred Lazar, Miles Corak, Dominique M. Gross, Unemployment Insurance: How to Make it Work, The Social Policy Challenge Vol. 2. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, pp Unemployment Comes of Age: The Demographics of Labour Sector Adjustment in Canada (1991). In Surendra Gera (editor), Canadian Unemployment: Lessons from the '80s and Challenges for the '90s. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services. 15. Canadian Unemployment in Retrospect (1991). In Surendra Gera (editor), Canadian Unemployment: Lessons from the '80s and Challenges for the '90s. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services. OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY REPORTS 1. Public Policies for Equality and Social Mobility. (2013). Canada 2020, Ottawa, 32 pages. Available at 2. Inequality and Life Chances. (2012). Broadbent Institute, Ottawa Canada, December pages. Available at 3. How to Slide Down the Great Gatsby Curve: Inequality, Life Chances, and Public Policy in the United States. (2012). Center for American Progress, December 5th, 30 pages. Available at 4. The Death of Data. (2012). Policy Options/Options Politiques. Volume 33, Number 9 (October), pages

9 9 5. Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic Mobility in the United States and Canada. (2010). Economic Mobility Project, PEW Charitable Trusts. 25 pages. Available at 6. Immigration in the Long Run: The Education and Earnings Mobility of Second- Generation Canadians. IRPP Choices, Volume 14, Number 13 (October 2008), 29 pages. Available at 7. Equality of opportunity and inequality across the generations: challenges ahead (2005). Policy Options/Options Politiques. Volume 26, Number 03 (March/April), pages Reprinted in Horizons: journal of the Policy Rearch Initiative, Vol. 8 no. 3 (April 2006). Revised version also published as Inequality across the generations in North America and Europe. CESifo DICE Report, Journal for International Comparisons. Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 2005), pp Available at 8. Child Poverty in Rich Countries UNICEF Innocenti Report Card No. 6. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence. (with Peter Adamson, Authorship held by UNICEF). Available at 9. The Earnings of Canadians: Making a living in the New Economy Census Analysis Series, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 96F0030XIE , March 11, (Authorship held by Statistics Canada.) Available at tents.cfm. 10. Three Stories about Unemployment Insurance and Canada-US Unemployment Rates (1996). Policy Options/Options Politiques. Volume 17, Number 6 (July/August), pages Workers, Firms and Unemployment Insurance (1995). Statistics Canada Catalogue No (With Wendy Pyper). Available at Intergenerational Income Mobility among Canadian Men (1995). Canadian Business Economics. Volume 4, Number 1 (Fall), pages (With Andrew Heisz). 13. The Distribution of UI Benefits and Taxes in Canada (1994). Canadian Economic Observer. Statistics Canada Catalogue No , December, pages Unemployment Insurance, Temporary Layoffs, and Recall Expectations (1994). Canadian Economic Observer. Statistics Canada Catalogue No , May,

10 10 pages [Abridged version published under the same title in Canadian Journal of Economics. Vol 29, Special Issue Part 1 (April 1996).] 15. The Duration of Unemployment during Boom and Bust (1993). Canadian Economic Observer. Statistics Canada Catalogue No , September, pages [Abridged version published as Measuring the Duration of Unemployment Spells. Canadian Journal of Economics. Vol. 29, Special Issue Part 1 (April 1996).] 16. Repeat Users of the Unemployment Insurance Program (1992). Canadian Economic Observer. Statistics Canada Catalogue No , (January), pages The Duration of Unemployment Insurance Payments (1992). Economic Council of Canada, Working Paper No.42. REVIEWS, OP-EDS, ON-LINE CONTRIBUTIONS 1. Economics and Public Policy Miles Corak writes on Economics that Matters. Author maintained blog since November 2011, and associated Twitter feed (Over 182,500 views between November 6, 2011 and September 14, 2013, with Klout score of 56.) 2. Invited contributor to Economy Lab, Globe and Mail online. Temporary foreign workers? More like permanent government nuisance, April 30th, Committee studying income inequality must find line between politics of envy and privilege, April 24th, How much confidence should we have in Canada s jobs numbers?, March 8th, Three predictions for Statscan s January jobs numbers, February 4th, 2013 Canada s employment landscape: recovery and hidden weakness, January 4th, The natural rate being ignored in jobs talk, December 6th, Don t shoot the pollsters - it s just probabilities, November 1st, Canada's job market: not bad, but could be better, October 30, Surge in top incomes demands a response, October 18th, How Occupy gave a voice to inequality, September 17, Why there are better ways to measure unemployment, September 10, How the invisible hand points students to a job, September 4, If Employment Insurance needs fixing blame politics, not economics, August 28, For US immigrants, arriving younger is better, August 17, Why good health in early life matters, June 11, What the UNICEF report on poverty doesn t tell us, May 29, A secret to social mobility: Inherit your job from Dad, May 17, 2012.

11 11 A fast way to lower jobless rate: Use US metrics, May 4, Why we should give children the vote, April 20, Ten trends that will shape the next century, April 19, Ottawa killed Katimavik and missed boat on youth jobs strategy, April 9, Will inequality become a permanent feature of our society? April 5, How Inequality Begets Inequality, February 22, U.S. libertarian Murray long on polemics, short on science, February 17, Why new Canadians struggle to find jobs. February 10, Unemployment is actually worse than numbers show, February 3, Why there s little to cheer in the jobs numbers. January 6, A 5-point tax plan that even an occupier could love. December, 5, In U.S., Canada, new measures of the poverty line. November 28, Making it to the top 1 per cent, with a little help from dad. November 21,2011. Message of the Occupiers: American Dream is vanishing. November 18, Who s Your Daddy? Job Prospects for Children of the 1%, The New York Times, Sunday Review, July 21, 2013, page SR7 Available at 4. There is nothing inevitable about low rates of economic mobility, The Economist, Free exchange, February 11, Available at 5. Promise to world s children remains unkept after 20 years. Toronto Star. Wednesday November 18 th, 2009, page. A27. Available at 6. Looking for the land of opportunity. BBC Online, Wednesday July 22 nd, Available at 7. Job market takes years to recover from recession. Toronto Star. Monday, February 9 th, 2009, page A13. Available at 8. A Review of Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference by Alberto Alesina and Edward L. Glaeser. International Journal of Social Welfare. Volume 16, Issue 1 (January 2007), pages A Review of Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics, edited by Daniel P.Keating and Clyde Hertzman (2000). isuma: Canadian Journal of Policy Research. Autumn Vol. 1 no A review of Vanishing Jobs: Canada s Changing Workplaces by Lars Osberg, Fred Wien, and Jan Grude (1997). Canadian Journal of Economics. Vol. 20, No.3 (August), pp

12 Comments on Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance by David Wilton and Tony Wirjanto (1995). In L.N. Christofides, E.K. Grant, and R. Swidinsky (eds.), Aspects of Labour Market Behaviour: Essays in Honour of John VanderKamp, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 12. Policy in an Era of Free Trade: Some Comments on the de Grandpré Report (1989). Canadian Public Policy. Vol. 15, No.3 (September), pp CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 1. The Unemployment Insurance We Want. Commentary in preparation for C.D. Howe Institute. 2. Early Maternal Employment and Child Development in Five OECD Countries. Paris: OECD, Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers. (with M.C. Huerta, W. Adema, J. Baxter, M. Deding, W.J. Han, and J. Waldfogel). Under submission. 3. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers. Under submission. (With Patrizio Piraino). IZA Disscussion Paper No Age at immigration and the adult outcomes of child migrants. In progress. 5. A Comparison of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States (With Bhashkar Mazumder and Matthew J. Lindquist). In progress EXTERNAL RESEARH FUNDING Year Source Type Amount per year Purpose 2013 Australian Research Government research Council 2012 Russell Sage Foundation Foundation research 2011 Princeton University Government ~$18,000 fellowship 2010 OECD Government $5,000 research 2009 Russell Sage Foundation, Foundation $23,000 research New York, NY 2009 PEW Charitable Trusts, Washington DC Foundation $55,000 research

13 Department of Health, Province of Ontario 2008 Social Sciences and 2009 Humanities Research 2010 Council, Canada Government $50,000 research Granting council $18,500 per year research and travel 2007 Economic and Social Research Council and Social Science Research Council, UK Granting council ~ $10,000 research and travel Miles Corak, Collaborative Visiting Fellowship 2003 Nuffield Foundation, UK Granting council 42,918 research Miles Corak, principal investigator WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS (last six calendar years only) Inequality and Opportunity: How to Slide Down the Great Gatsby Curve, Luncheon Address, Ottawa, Ottawa Economics Association, June 6, Understanding inequality and what to do about it, Certificate Program in Public Sector Leadership and Governance, University of Ottawa, Centre on Public Management and Policy, June 4, Tax policy for equality and social mobility, House of Commons, Standing Committee on Finance, Income Inequality in Canada, Ottawa, April 25, Inequality in child development and public policy in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States, New Orleans, United States, Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, April 11, Should children be given the vote?, TEDxWaterloo 2013, Chasing Home, Waterloo, Canada, March 27, Equality of Opportunity --- a Canadian dream?, Panelist, Canada 2020 Panel Discussion, Ottawa, Canada, February 26, Understanding Inequality and What to Do About it, Meeting of the All Pary Anti-Poverty Caucus, House of Commons, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, February 12, How to Slide Down the Great Gatsby Curve: Social Mobility and Social Institutions in Comparison, Prentice Institute Speaker Event, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge Alberta, January 17, Social Mobility and Social Institutions in Comparison: Canada in International Perspective. Presentation to the Centre for the Studies of Living Standards, Rideau Club, Ottawa, September 20 th. 2. Social and Economic Mobility in Canada, Presentation to the

14 14 Canadian Association for Business Economics, Economic Outlook/Policy Forum. Kingston Ontario, August 21 st. 3. Presentation and written testimony, Economic mobility across the generations in the United States; comparisons, causes, and consequences, to the United States Senate, Committee on Finance, July 10 th hearing on Tax Reform: Drivers of Intergenerational Mobility and the Tax Code, Washington DC. 4. Age at immigration and the adult attainments of child migrants to the United States. Presentation to the Annual meetings of the European Society for Population Economics, Bern Switzerland, June 23 rd. 5. A comparison of Upward and Downward Intergenerational mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States. Presentation to the Annual conference of the Canadian labour market and skills research network, Calgary Alberta, June 7 th. 6. Social Mobility and Social Institutions in Comparison: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Presentation to the Sutton Trust / Carrnegie Foundation Summit on Social Mobility, London United Kingdom, May 21 st. 7. Presentation to the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Session on Inequality. Senate of Canada, Ottawa Canada, May 2 nd. 8. Promoting the Dignity and Rights of Children: Make Work Pay, Reduce Time Stress, and Enfranchise Children. Presentation to the Dignity for All Campaign Summit. Ottawa Canada, April 12 th. 9. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers. Departmental Seminar. Florida International University. March 23 rd Age at immigration, social boundaries and the adult attainments of US child migrants. Paper presented to the fall meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington DC, November 3 rd - 5 th. 2. Age at immigration, social boundaries and the adult attainments of US child migrants. Paper presented to the Income, Inequality, and Immigration conference held at Queen s University, Kingston Canada, September 30 th October 1 st. 3. Age at immigration, social boundaries and the adult attainments of US child migrants. Paper presented to the V INSIDE Workshop. Institute for Economic Analysis, Universitat Autonoma. Barcelona Spain, June th. 4. Low Income, Poverty and Deprivation: Putting Principles into Practice. Presentation to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association. University of Ottawa, Ottawa Canada. June 3 rd 5. Chair, State of the Art Lecture by Daron Acemoglu. Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association. University of Ottawa. June 4 th. 6. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of

15 15 Employers. Departmental Seminar. SOFI (Swedish Institute for Social Research), University of Stockholm. Stockholm Sweden. May 19 th. 7. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers. Departmental Seminar. IFAU (The Institute for Labor Market Policy), University of Uppsala. Uppsala Sweden. May 18 th. 8. A Comparison of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States Paper presented to the 2011 Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists. Vancouver Canada. April 29 th. 9. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers. Presentation to the Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Princeton New Jersey. March 21 st. 10. Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada. Presentation to the Canadian Studies Program. Princeton University, Princeton New Jersey. March 9 th. 11. Early child outcomes and parental resources in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. Presentation to the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton New Jersey. February Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers. Paper present to the John Deutsch Institute Conference Economic Relations between Children and Parents. Queen s University, Kingston Ontario. October 22 nd. 2. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers. Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington. Seattle Washington. October 15 th. 3. Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States. Paper presented to the 31 st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. St. Gallen, Switzerland. August 22 nd 28 th. 4. A Comparison of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States. Paper presented to the 31 st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. St. Gallen, Switzerland. August 22 nd 28 th. 5. Session organizer of a session on Immigration and Well-Being at the 31 st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. St. Gallen, Switzerland. August 22 nd 28 th. 6. Discussant of Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement - Evidence from a Placement Policy. By Olof Åslund (Institute for Labour Market Policy and Evaluation, Sweden), Per- Anders Edin (Upsalla University, Sweden), Peter Fredriksson (Upsalla University, Sweden) and Hans Grönqvist (Swedish Institute for Social

16 16 Research, Sweden) at the 31 st General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth. St. Gallen, Switzerland. August 22 nd 28 th. 7. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Empoyers Paper presented to the 2010 Annual Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists. London United Kingdom. June 17 th. 8. Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Empoyers Paper presented to the 2010 Annual Meetings of the European Society of Population Economics. Essen Germany. June 11 th. 9. Chair of the session Determinants of Economic Integration and Policy Implications at the Institute for Research on Public Policy Conference Canada s Immigration Policy: Reconciling Labour Market Needs and Longer-Term Goals. Ottawa Ontario. May 25 h and 26 th. 10. The Intergenerational transmission of employers in Canada and Denmark. Paper presented to the workshop on Cross-national Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Organized by the Russell Sage Foundation. London, United Kingdom. May 10 th and 11 th. 11. Early child outcomes and parental resources in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. Paper presented to the workshop on Cross-national Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Organized by the Russell Sage Foundation. London, United Kingdom. May 10 th and 11 th. 12. Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children. Paper presented to Statistics Canada Socio-economic Conference 2010, Gatineau Quebec. April 27 th. 13. Testimony to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology: Seventh meeting on the study of accessibility of post-secondary education in Canada. Ottawa: Senate of Canada, April 21 st. 14. Organizer. In from the Margins: A Call to End Poverty. Public lecture by Senators Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. March 12 th. 15. The Intergenerational transmission of employers in Canada and Denmark. Paper presented to the workshop on Cross-national Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Organized by the Russell Sage Foundation. New York, United States. January 21 st and 22 nd. 16. Early child outcomes and parental resources in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Canada. Paper presented to the workshop on Cross-national Research on the Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Organized by the Russell Sage Foundation. New York, United States. January 21 st and 22 nd Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Departmental Seminar, Department of Economics, McGill University. March 13 th.

17 2. Immigration in the Long Run: The Education and Earnings mobility of Second Generation Canadians. Address to the Plenary Session The Children of Immigrants, 11 th National Metropolis Conference, Calgary Alberta, March 22 nd. 3. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children. Presentation to the Jacobs Foundation Conference 2009 on Capitalizing on Migration, The Potential of Immigrant Youth,Schloss Marbach, Germany, April 20 th to 23 rd. 4. Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Departmental Seminar, Department of Economics, Warwich University. April 27 th. 5. Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Departmental Seminar, Department of Economics, McGill University. March 13 th. 6. Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Invited presentation to the MILLS Workshop on Networks and Intergenerational Mobility, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. June 22 nd. 7. Testimony to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Subcomittee on Cities: Seventh meeting on Current social issues pertaining to Canada s largest cities. Ottawa: Senate of Canada, May 29 th. 8. Co-chair, Statistics Canada, Socio-economic conference 2009, Ottawa, May 4 th and 5 th. 9. Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Labor Economists. Boston May8th- 9th. 10. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children. Paper presented to the Conference Economics of Immigration: Children of Immigrants and Temporary Migration. Metropolis BC, Simon Fraser University, and CReAM. Vancouver May 11 th -12 th. 11. Presentation to the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Income Security Roundtable, Ottawa, May 29 th. 12. Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the European Society for Population Economics. Seville Spain. June 11 th -13 th. 13. Immigration in the Long Run: The Education and Earnings mobility of Second Generation Canadians. Presentation to the Metropolis Brown Bag Seminar Series, Ottawa. July 30 th. 14. Invited participant, Market Basket Measure of Poverty Expert Consultation. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. Ottawa. Auguat 25 th. 15. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children Paper presented to the Research Seminar on Child Migration in Comparative Perspective, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University. August 27 th -28 th. 16. Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada. Paper presented to the 17

18 18 Conference on Intergenerational Mobility. Institute for Research on Poverty. University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin. September 21 st - 22 nd. 17. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children. Departmental Seminar, Statistics Canada, Ottawa. October 16 th. 18. Age at immigration and the education outcomes of children. Invited Speaker. Center for the Study of Human Development Colloquium Series: Children from an International Perspective. Brown University, Providence Rhode Island. November 4 th. 19. Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada. Paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Association for Public Policy and Management. Washington DC. November 5 th. 20. Immigration in the Long Run: The Education and Earnings mobility of Second Generation Canadians. Departmental Seminar, Justice Canada, Ottawa. December 4 th Equality of Opportunity and Social Mobility presentation to the Expert Policy Forum Equity in Health and Well-Being. Department of Policy Innovation and Leadership, Government of Ontario. Toronto, March 28 th. 2. The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and Earnings. 30 th Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Portoroz Solvenia. August 24-30, The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and Earnings. Intergenerational Mobility Conference organized by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of Economics, London UK. June The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and Earnings. Conference on Recent Developments in Research on Intergenerational Mobility. Scottish Institute for Research in Economics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh UK. June Intergenerational Education Mobility among the children of Canadian Immigrants. Institute for Fiscal Studies. London United Kingdom. June Intergenerational Education Mobility among the children of Canadian Immigrants. European Society for Population Economics, Annual Conference. University College London. June Intergenerational Education Mobility among the children of Canadian Immigrants. Centre for Longidutinal Studies, University of London. London United Kingdom. July Immigration in the Long Run: The Education and Earnings mobility of Second Generation Canadians. IRPP / University of Ottawa Publication Launch. University of Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario. October The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Departmental

19 19 Seminar, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario. November Immigration in the Long Run: The Education and Earnings mobility of Second Generation Canadians. Institute for Research on Public Policy organized Policy Lunch, Toronto Ontario. December The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers. Departmental Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario. December Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants. Paper presented to the Third Annual Symposium of the Population, Work and Family Policy Research Collaboration. Ottawa, December Research Design, Public Policy and the Development of Data. Presentation to the Seminar on Data Development and Modeling, Presymposium of the Population, Work and Family Policy Research Collaboration. Ottawa, December Low Income, Poverty, and Deprivation: Putting principles into practice. Presentation to the Advanced Academic Update conference New Frontiers in Measuring Poverty. Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, University of Maastricht, Maastricht The Netherlands, November The socio-economic attainment of the children of Immigrants. Invited Keynote address to the Research Conference on Applications in Measuring Poverty. Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, University of Maastricht. Maastricht The Netherlands, November Ingredients of a successful research project. Lecture to the PhD program at the Maastricht School of Governance, University of Maastricht, Maastricht The Netherlands, November Intergenerational Earnings mobility among the children of Canadian Immigrants. Paper presented to the 29 th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management. Washington DC, November Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants. Paper presented to the Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario. London, November Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants. Paper presented to the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network Workshop on Immigration. Vancouver, October Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants. Paper presented to the IZA/University of Bergen Workshop on Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Outcomes. Bonn Germany, October Intergenerational Earnings mobility among the children of Canadian

20 20 Immigrants. Paper presented to the Social Interactions, Identity and Well-being program meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Ottawa, September Inequality and Equality of Opportunity. Invited Keynote discussant to the release of Prosperity, inequality and poverty. Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity. Toronto, September Equality of opportunity as social inclusion. Invited presentation to the Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Departmental Workshop on Operationalizing Inclusion for Research and Policy. Ottawa September The socioeconomic attainment of the children of immigrants. Invited Keynote address to the Biannual meetings of the Population Association of New Zealand. Wellington New Zealand. July Intergenerational Earnings mobility among the children of Canadian Immigrants. Paper presented to the annual meetings of the Canadian Economics Association. Halifax, June Child Poverty. Session organized for the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, 29 th General Conference, Joensuu, Finland, August Low Income, Poverty, and Deprivation. Workshop organized with University of Toronto (John Myles) and co-sponsored by Statistics Canada and the University of Toronto, June Statistics Canada Socio-Economic Conference. Co-chair. May New Issues in Canadian Immigration. A presentation of research and a panel discussion organized by the Family and Labour Studies Division, Statistics Canada, April New Realities of Gender in Canadian Society. Workshop organized jointly with the University of British Columbia Research Data Centre (Nicole Fortin), the Dalhousie University Research Data Centre (Shelley Phipps). Ottawa, March Longitudinal Surveys in an International Perspective. (member of the scientific and organizing committees.) Conference sponsored by Statistics Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, January REFEREEING Econometrica, American Economic Review (4 times), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (3 times),review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Income and Wealth (3 times), Industrial Relations, Journal of Population Economics (3 times), Journal of Labor Economics (2 times), Journal of Human Resources (2 times), Journal of Economic Surveys, Labour ( 2 times), Swedish Journal of Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics (4 times),

21 21 Canadian Public Policy (3 times), Canadian Business Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Public Economics, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Israeli Science Foundation, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Cambridge University Press, Jacobs Foundation REFERENCES Upon Request.