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In earlier work (Oreopoulos, 2009), thousands of resumes were sent in response to online job postings across Toronto to investigate why Canadian immigrants struggle in the labor market. The findings suggested significant discrimination by name ethnicity and city of experience. This follow-up...
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age dimensions of immigration to Canada since 1980, and the evolution of policies directed towards older immigrants (i ….e., immigration selection, and eligibility for age-related social security programs). Second, using the SCF and SLID surveys spanning …
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The number of immigrants working in regulated and unregulated occupations is unknown. A major contribution of this study is that we use Statistics Canada data to classify occupations, across provinces, into regulated and unregulated categories and then to examine the covariates of membership in...
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We use longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records to estimate the earnings growth of immigrants from three entering cohorts since the early 1980s. Selective attrition by low-earning immigrants might result in lower earnings growth with years since migration in longitudinal data...
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In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over different points of the wage distribution. The well-documented decline in the immigrant-Canadian born mean wage gap hides a much larger decline at the low end of the wage...
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There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar … is effective, immigration might lead to out-migration of the nonimmigrant population from a community in the short run … industry-specific immigration density differentials across regions are measured only at destinations, they have strong and …
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immigration can cause increases in crime is warranted, considering the fact that there is much empirical evidence that suggest the …€œImmigration and Crime: Evidence from Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 135) analyses the relationship between immigration and crime … could be expected that a selective immigration policy of this nature, may bring more “complementary†new immigrant …
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The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive...
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Immigrant men and women in Canada from recent arrival cohorts have especially low rates of having an apprenticeship credential when compared to either their counterparts from earlier arrival cohorts or the Canadian born. Among the native born, a second generation man is more likely to have...
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literature. This paper identifies the causal linkages between immigration and crime using panel data constructed from the Uniform …-abiding immigrants can fully explain the size of the estimates. This suggests that immigration has a spillover effect, such as changing … that immigration is associated with higher crime rates. …
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