Subject: Research Digest: Short Notice Funding Opportunity:
From: Janet Friskney
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:39:46 -0400
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E-Digest                                                                                       July 17, 2008



**Short Notice Funding Opportunity**


Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Request for Proposal:  
Does ability as measured by PISA scores affect early labour market outcomes among Canadian youth?

Deadline: August 7, 2008
Value: $26,000 (excluding applicable taxes) plus up to $4,000 for data access
File#:   9038-08-0017
Contracting authority: Robert Hayman, Robert.hayman@servicecanada.gc.ca

The current availability of the fourth cycle of the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), at which time the respondents are age 21, makes it ideal to study early labour market outcomes. Studies have shown that many respondents who have not completed high school education have entered the labour markets. Others have completed high school but decided not to pursue post-secondary education, entering the labour market directly. At age 21, the first wave of them will have graduated (especially shorter post-secondary education programs) and started to join the labour market. Much literature has been devoted to early labour market outcomes, but the studies were limited to either types of institutions or fields of study. The linkage of PISA data to YITS permits analysis on how labour market outcomes vary among these groups in light of their ability as measured by PISA scores.

Also, while in post-secondary education many students engage in work. In addition to PISA scores, exposure to work while in post-secondary education or high school can also affect eventual labour market outcomes.

The purpose of this RFP is to seek proposals for research which would use data from the first four cycles of the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) – cohort A (see details about data availability in section 5) and the 2000 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to investigate early labour market outcomes among young Canadians in light of their PISA scores at age 15.

See attached file for further details.





Janet Friskney
Research Officer, Faculty of Arts
South 823, Ross Building
York University
4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON  M3J 1P3

(416) 736-2100 ext. 22685
friskney@yorku.ca