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    Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series

    Wages, Youth Employment, and School Enrollment: Recent Evidence from Increases in World Oil Prices

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    Tables

    Table 1 Descriptive statistics, unmarried men aged 17 to 24, 2001 to 2008

    Table 2 Results of first-stage regressions (dependent variable is log after-tax real wages)

    Table 3 The estimated impact of real wages on young men's outcomes

    Table 4 The estimated impact of real wages on the outcomes of young men with no high school diploma

    Table 5 The estimated impact of real wages on the outcomes of potential college and university enrollees

    Table 6 Being neither enrolled in school nor employed ― Robustness checks

    Table 7 Wages, college attendance, and university attendance

    Table 8 School enrollment of young men with no high school diploma ― Robustness checks

    Table 9 Province–year interaction terms in the three oil-producing provinces — Longitudinal Administrative Databank data

    Charts

    Chart 1 Total production of crude oil (cubic metres times 1000) by province, average of 1997 to 2008

    Chart 2 Percentage of unmarried men aged 17 to 24 employed in the oil industry, average of 1997 to 2000

    Chart 3 Industrial product price index for petroleum and coal products, 1997 to 2008 (2002 = 100)

    Chart 4 Average log real wages of unmarried men aged 17 to 24, by province, 1998 to 2008 (1998 = 100)

    Chart 5 Real wage growth (log points) from 2001/2002 to 2007/2008, by province and education level

    Chart 6 Employment rate of unmarried men aged 17 to 24, 1998 to 2008

    Chart 7 Percentage of unmarried men aged 17 to 24 enrolled in school, 1998 to 2008

    Chart 8 Percentage of unmarried men aged 17 to 24 enrolled in university full-time, 1998 to 2008

    Chart 9 Changes in the percentage of young men neither enrolled in school nor employed, by province and education level, 2001/2002 to 2007/2008

    Chart 10 Changes in the percentage of young men neither enrolled in school nor employed, by province and age, 2001/2002 to 2007/2008

    Chart 11 Percentage of young men neither enrolled in school nor employed relative to that observed in 2004

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