Table 7
Wages, college attendance, and university attendance

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Table 7
Wages, college attendance, and university attendance
Table summary
This table displays the results of Wages Percentile, 15th, 25th, 35th, 45th, Column 1, Column 2, Column 3 and Column 4, calculated using parameter estimates and numbers units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Percentile
15th 25th 35th 45th
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4
parameter estimates
Outcome  
Being enrolled in university full-time  
Ordinary least squares -0.16Note *** -0.1Note *** -0.04Note * 0.03Note *
Two-stage least squares -0.17 -0.18 -0.20 -0.21
Efficient Wald Estimator -0.13Note ** -0.12Note * -0.11Note * -0.07
Efficient Wald Estimator (2 age groups) -0.17Note *** -0.16Note ** -0.15Note ** -0.15Note **
Efficient Wald Estimator (2 age groups and relative wages) -0.13Note ** -0.12Note * -0.1Note * -0.1Note *
Being enrolled in college full-time  
Ordinary least squares -0.06Note ** -0.04Note † -0.02 0.01
Two-stage least squares -0.15 -0.15 -0.17 -0.18
Efficient Wald Estimator 0.00 -0.01 0.03 0.00
Efficient Wald Estimator (2 age groups) -0.01 0.01 0.04 0.02
Efficient Wald Estimator (2 age groups and relative wages) -0.03 0.00 0.04 0.02
    numbers
Full-time university enrollment rate in 2001 0.22 0.22 0.22 0.22
Full-time college enrollment rate in 2001 0.19 0.19 0.19 0.19
Note ***

significantly different from reference category (p<0.001)

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Note **

significantly different from reference category (p<0.01)

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Note *

significantly different from reference category (p<0.05)

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Note †

significantly different from reference category (p<0.10)

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Note: The sample consists of individuals with a high school diploma, individuals with some postsecondary education, individuals with a diploma from a community college or CEGEP, and individuals with a university certificate below a bachelor's degree. The numbers show the estimated impact of wages on young men's probability of being enrolled in university or college full-time. Separate regressions are run based on various percentiles used for imputing wages of non-employed men. All regressions include fully interacted age, education and region indicators, year effects, month indicators, a renter indicator, a census metropolitan area/census agglomeration indicator, the unemployment rate and the rate of involuntary part-time employment defined at the age, education and region level, as well as province-specific log real minimum wages, log average real tuition fees for a bachelor’s degree and levels of social assistance income available to single individuals. P-values are based on standard errors clustered at the age, education and region level.
Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculations from Labour Force Survey (February, March, September and October files).

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