Miles Corak
Research Fellow

IZA Logo
     
Corak Miles Corak is a full professor with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, and the vice-dean of research in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He has published numerous articles on topics dealing with child poverty, access to university education, intergenerational earnings and education mobility, and unemployment. His most recent research deals with the definition of poverty, with child poverty in the OECD, and with the socio-economic status of immigrants and children of immigrants. He is a co-chair of the Canadian Employment Research Forum, and until 2007 was the Director of the Family and Labour Studies Division at Statistics Canada. He has also been a visiting researcher with the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence Italy in 2003/04, and with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in London UK in 2008.

Miles Corak joined IZA as a Research Fellow in April 2001.
  Email | CV | Homepage
 
IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
4876  Miles Corak
Patrizio Piraino
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
4824  Miles Corak
Darren Lauzon
Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term
4819  Miles Corak
Patrizio Piraino
The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
4814  Miles Corak
Lori Curtis
Shelley Phipps
Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
3759  Abdurrahman Aydemir
Wen-Hao Chen
Miles Corak
Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
2085  Abdurrahman Aydemir
Wen-Hao Chen
Miles Corak
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 377 - 397)
1993 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Miles Corak
Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 143-188)
1589  Miles Corak
Christine Lietz
Holly Sutherland
The Impact of Tax and Transfer Systems on Children in the European Union
1579  Miles Corak
Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries
(published in: International Social Security Review, 2006, 59 (2), 3-36)
1574  Wen-Hao Chen
Miles Corak
Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990
(revised version published in: Demography, 2008, 45 (3), 537-553)
1528  Miles Corak
Michael Fertig
Marcus Tamm
A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (4), 547-571)
977  Miles Corak
Garth Lipps
John Zhao
Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education
(published in: Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis (eds.), Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005)
811  Miles Corak
Wen-Hao Chen
Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336)
184  Miles Corak
Björn Gustafsson
Torun Österberg
Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
(published in: Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press 2004)
 

Back

Login
 

© IZA  Impressum  Last updated: 2010-07-07  webmaster@iza.org    |   Bookmark this page    |   Print View