publications

in reverse chronological order, split by publication type.

Working Papers

2025

  1. Self-employment among older workers
    Benoit Dostie
    2025
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  2. What is the role of firms in explaining age-earnings differentials in Canada?
    Benoit Dostie and Todd Morris
    2025
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  3. The labour market impacts of employer-pension plans
    Benoit Dostie, Pierre-Carl Michaud, and Todd Morris
    2025
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  4. Immigrant self-employment
    David Card, Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, and Daniel Parent
    2025
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  5. Performance pay, firm wage premia, and wage inequality
    Benoit Dostie, Cédric Schneider, and Lene Kromann
    2025
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  6. More than just neighbors: Immigrant network and jobs in high-paying firms
    Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman, and Natalia Vigezzi
    2025
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  7. The welfare effects of protecting older workers
    Benoit Dostie, Todd Morris, and Stefan Staubli
    2025
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Articles

2025

  1. Overcoming obstacles to innovation: Can an educated workforce help?
    Lene Kromann, Benoit Dostie, and Anders Sørensen
    Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 2025
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2023

  1. Skills, tasks and occupational changes: A shift-share decomposition for Canada, 2006–2016
    Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Benoit Dostie, and Geneviève Dufour
    Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 2023
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  2. Employer policies and the immigrant–native earnings gap
    Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card, and Daniel Parent
    Journal of Econometrics, 2023
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  3. Firm pay policies and the gender earnings gap: The mediating role of marital and family status
    Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, and Gaëlle Simard-Duplain
    ILR Review, 2023
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2022

  1. Earnings gaps between natives and immigrants: The role of firms in British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec
    Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, and Daniel Parent
    Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 2022
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  2. Firms, workers, sorting, and the immigrant–native earnings gap
    Benoit Dostie
    IZA World of Labor, 2022
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2021

  1. Estimating the impacts of payroll taxes: Evidence from Canadian employer–employee tax data
    Jonathan Deslauriers, Benoit Dostie, Robert Gagné, and Jonathan Paré
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021
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2020

  1. Not for the profit, but for the training? Gender differences in training in the for-profit and non-profit sectors
    Benoit Dostie and Mohsen Javdani
    British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020
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  2. Applying data synthesis for longitudinal business data across three countries
    M. Jahangir Alam, Benoit Dostie, Jörg Drechsler, and Lars Vilhuber
    Statistics in Transition new series, 2020
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  3. Who benefits from firm-sponsored training?
    Benoit Dostie
    IZA World of Labor, 2020
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  4. Canadian immigrants and training opportunities: Evidence from Canadian linked employer–employee data
    Benoit Dostie and Mohsen Javdani
    Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020
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2018

  1. Complementarities between firm-sponsored training and information technology use
    Benoit Dostie
    Applied Economics Letters, 2018
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  2. The impact of training on innovation
    Benoit Dostie
    ILR Review, 2018
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2016

  1. Serial referendums on alcohol prohibition: A New Zealand invention
    Benoit Dostie and Ruth Dupré
    Social Science History, 2016
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2015

  1. Who benefits from firm-sponsored training?
    Benoit Dostie
    IZA World of Labor, 2015
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  2. Do train-or-pay schemes really increase training levels?
    Benoit Dostie
    Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2015
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2014

  1. Firm-sponsored classroom training: Is it worth it for older workers?
    Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger
    Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 2014
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2013

  1. Do higher costs spur process innovations and managerial incentives? Evidence from a natural experiment
    Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman
    Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013
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  2. Estimating the returns to firm-sponsored on-the-job and classroom training
    Benoit Dostie
    Journal of Human Capital, 2013
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  3. New estimates of labour supply elasticities for married women in Canada 1996–2005
    Benoit Dostie and Lene Kromann
    Applied Economics, 2013
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2012

  1. “The people’s will”: Canadians and the 1898 referendum on alcohol prohibition
    Benoit Dostie and Ruth Dupré
    Explorations in Economic History, 2012
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  2. Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
    Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012
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2011

  1. Wages, productivity and aging
    Benoit Dostie
    De Economist, 2011
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  2. A competing risks analysis of the determinants of low completion rates in the Canadian apprenticeship system
    Benoit Dostie
    Canadian Apprenticeship Journal, 2011
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2010

  1. What (if any) are the returns to computer use?
    Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman, and Mathieu Trépanier
    Applied Economics, 2010
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2009

  1. Self-selection in migration and returns to skills
    Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger
    Journal of Population Economics, 2009
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2007

  1. New evidence on the determinants of absenteeism using linked employer–employee data
    Benoit Dostie and Georges Dionne
    Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007
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  2. Child work and schooling: The role of household asset profiles and poverty in rural Ethiopia
    John Cockburn and Benoit Dostie
    Journal of African Economies, 2007
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  3. Les rendements de la formation en entreprise
    Benoit Dostie and Marie-Pierre Pelletier
    Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 2007
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2006

  1. Determinants of school attendance in Indian villages
    Benoit Dostie and Rajshri Jayaraman
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2006
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2005

  1. The living arrangements dynamics of sick, elderly individuals
    Benoit Dostie and Pierre Thomas Léger
    The Journal of Human Resources, 2005
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  2. Job turnover and the returns to seniority
    Benoit Dostie
    Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2005
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2002

  1. Seasonal poverty in Madagascar: Magnitude and solutions
    Benoit Dostie, Steve Haggblade, and Josée Randrimamonjy
    Food Policy, 2002
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1998

  1. Les leç ons du mariage entre les modèles d’équilibre général calculable et la nouvelle théorie du commerce internationale: Application à la Tunisie
    John Cockburn, Bernard Decaluwé, and Benoit Dostie
    L’Actualité économique, 1998
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Book Chapters

2022

  1. Enjeux du marché du travail et compétences: Pistes de réflexion pour le futur
    Benoit Dostie, Geneviève Dufour, and Catherine Haeck
    In Le Québec Économique #10. Compétences et transformation du marché du travail, 2022
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  2. Évolution de la demande de compétence entre 2006 et 2016
    Mikhael Deutsch-Heng, Benoit Dostie, and Geneviève Dufour
    In Le Québec Économique #10. Compétences et transformation du marché du travail, 2022
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  3. Des compétences pour s’adapter à la transformation du marché du travail
    Benoit Dostie, Geneviève Dufour, and Catherine Haeck
    In Le Québec Économique #10. Compétences et transformation du marché du travail, 2022
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2020

  1. La pandémie de COVID-19: Catalyseur inattendu de la transformation numérique
    Benoit Dostie, Nathalie Marcellis-Warin, and Geneviève Dufour
    In Le Québec Économique #9. Perspectives et défis de la transformation numérique, 2020
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  2. Changements technologiques et polarisation des salaires au Québec
    Benoit Dostie
    In Le Québec Économique #9. Perspectives et défis de la transformation numérique, 2020
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  3. Transformation numérique et formation continue
    Benoit Dostie and Geneviève Dufour
    In Le Québec Économique #9. Perspectives et défis de la transformation numérique, 2020
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  4. Changer, transformer, innover
    Benoit Dostie, Nathalie Marcellis-Warin, and Geneviève Dufour
    In Le Québec Économique #9. Perspectives et défis de la transformation numérique, 2020
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2012

  1. Des employés en santé, des employés productifs
    Stéphanie Boulenger, Joanne Castonguay, Benoit Dostie, and Franç ois Vaillancourt
    In 2011 Le Québec Économique. Un bilan de santé du Québec, 2012
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2006

  1. Transferts volontaires versus transferts coercitifs: Impact sur le travail domestique des jeunes femmes en Tunisie
    Benoit Dostie and Désiré Vencatachellum
    In Le développement face à la pauvreté , 2006
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2001

  1. Compétition imparfaite, économie d’échelle et commerce extérieur en Tunisie: Une aventure ambigüe
    John Cockburn, Bernard Decaluwé, Benoit Dostie, André Martens, and Luc Savard
    In La politique économique du développement et les modèles d’équilibre général calculable, 2001
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Books

2022

  1. Le Québec Économique #10. Compétences et transformation du marché du travail
    2022
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2020

  1. Le Québec Économique #9. Perspectives et défis de la transformation numérique
    2020
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Other Written Work

2025

  1. The labour market impacts of employer-pension plans
    Benoit Dostie and Todd Morris
    Aug 2025
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2020

  1. What is the role of firm-specific pay policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada?
    Jiang Li, Benoit Dostie, and Gaëlle Simard-Duplain
    2020

2014

  1. State of knowledge review of the wider benefits of adult learning
    Karen Myers, Marc Frenette, Arthur Sweetman, Benoit Dostie, and Clément Langlois
    2014

2007

  1. Employer-sponsored training in Canada: Synthesis of the literature using data from the Workplace and Employee Survey
    Benoit Dostie and Claude Montmarquette
    2007
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2006

  1. Labor market dynamics in Romania during a period of economic liberalization
    Benoit Dostie and David E. Sahn
    2006