Previous studies have found a strong association between source-country female labour force participation rates and immigrant women?s labour force participation in the host country. This relationship is interpreted as the enduring influence of source-country gender-role attitudes on immigrant...

Des etudes anterieures ont revele une forte association entre le taux d?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et l?activite des immigrantes dans le pays hote. Cette relation est interpretee comme le resultat de l?influence persistante des attitudes a l?egard des roles sexospecifiques dans le...

Canada and the United States have recently experienced an increase in the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs), as well as...

Tant au Canada qu?aux Etats-Unis, on a constate recemment un accroissement de la dispersion regionale des nouveaux immigrants. Selon des etudes menees aux Etats-Unis, une combinaison de facteurs economiques ayant un effet d?eloignement (des Etats tels que la Californie) et de facteurs ayant un...

The study examines the effects of cancer on the work status and annual earnings of cancer survivors who had a strong attachment to the labour market prior to their diagnosis. The comparison group consists of similar workers never diagnosed with cancer. The study is based on a Statistics Canada...

L?etude examine les effets du cancer sur la situation d?emploi et sur les gains annuels des survivants du cancer qui avaient un niveau eleve de participation a la vie active avant leur diagnostic. Le groupe de controle est compose de travailleurs semblables qui n?ont jamais recu de diagnostic de...

In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...

The annual level of immigration is one of the most critical components of a country's immigration policy. It is difficult to directly compare the costs and benefits of changing immigration levels because immigration can serve multiple goals. However, some narrowly-defined effects can be...

Au Canada, au cours des annees 1990 et des annees 2000, la selection des immigrants economiques s?est appuyee principalement sur le modele d?immigration axe sur le capital humain. Ce modele a pour premisse que selectionner des immigrants dont le niveau de capital humain est eleve est...

Le niveau annuel d'immigration est l'une des composantes les plus importantes de la politique d'immigration d'un pays. Il est difficile de comparer directement les couts et les avantages de la modification des niveaux d'immigration, car l'immigration peut servir a repondre a plusieurs objectifs....