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Immigrant Selection Systems and Occupational Outcomes of International Medical Graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2012

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. The IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) is extended to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-born Canadians

Tu, Jiong - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust over various …

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The Wealth of Mexican Americans

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2004

This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican Americans. Results reveal that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in conditional expected wealth functions. Similarly, income differentials are important, but do not play the...

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Revisiting the Family Investment Hypothesis

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas F. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the “primary worker” engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes labor market activities which...

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McDonald, James Ted; Trenholm, Ryan - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

Objective – To identify the extent to which differences between Inuit and other residents of Canada’s North in a set of health behaviors and health service use related to cancer incidence and diagnosis can be accounted for by demographic, socio-economic and geographic factors. Study Design...

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The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hildebrand, Vincent A. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006

This paper analyzes the portfolio allocations of couple-headed, Hispanic families using Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data. Our results reveal that Hispanic couples as a group are less wealthy than otherwise similar white couples, although there is substantial variation...

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The Roles of Ethnicity and Language Acculturation in Determining the Interprovincial Migration Propensities in Canada: from the Late 1970s to the Late 1990s

Ma, Xiaomeng; Liaw, Kao-Lee - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

The main purpose of this paper is to study the roles of ethnicity and language acculturation in determining the propensities to make interprovincial migration in Canada in 1976-81, 1981-86, and 1996-2001, based on the micro data of the 1981, 1986 and 2001 censuses. Since these propensities are...

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The determinants of the migration decisions of immigrant and non-immigrant physicians in Canada

McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

In this paper, we use data from the confidential master files of the Canadian Census over the years 1991-2006 to study the geographic mobility of immigrant and non-immigrant physicians who are already resident in Canada. We consider both inter- and intra- provincial migration, with a particular...

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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas F - Department of Economics, McMaster University

The family investment hypothesis that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with albour market comparative advantage engages ininvestment activities and the other partner undertakes labor market...

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The Healthy Immigrant Effect and Immigrant Selection: Evidence from Four Countries

Kennedy, Steven; McDonald, James Ted; Biddle, Nicholas - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006

The existence of a healthy immigrant effect – where immigrants are on average healthier than the native-born – is now a well accepted phenomenon. There are many competing explanations for this phenomenon including health screening by recipient countries, healthy behaviour prior to migration...

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