Apprenticeship, Disability, and Earnings: A Canadian Case Study Involving Quantitative Analysis of Administrative Data (Poster 37)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Thursday 1:45 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Workplace Learning Poster Session

Abstract

This study investigates apprentices who started grade 9 between 2003 and 2006 in the Toronto District School Board. Includes a comprehensive descriptive analysis of these cohorts, and a series of regression models to predict earnings among apprenticeship graduates, while also controlling for important sociodemographic predictors, including high school performance. Findings indicate that trades graduates with Red Seal certificates earn more than all other groups in our analyses, and that other trades groups have comparable earnings to those who completed an undergraduate degree program. Students with disabilities enter apprenticeship programs at higher rates than college or university, and our regression analyses reveal that the difference in earnings between those with and without disabilities is negligible among those who enter trades programs.

Authors

• Robert Stewart Brown, Toronto District School Board 

• David Walters, University of Guelph

• Gillian Parekh, York University

• Christine Elizabeth Bond Mishra, University of Toronto

• Roger Pizarro Milian, University of Toronto

• Ryan Collis, York University

• Firrisaa Jamal Abdulkarim, York University