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Canada for immigrants) are important. As well, we find that large Canadian cities (mainly in Ontario) are the likely …
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newly landed immigrants led to a further concentration in Ontario and British Columbia. Underlying this pattern was the fact … airport. This further concentration of relocating immigrants is problematic in the sense that it contributed to the weakening …-2000 interstate migration of the immigrants in the U.S. can not serve as a harbinger for a general reversal in the interprovincial …
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with additional stress arising from unemployment affects the mental health of immigrants. I use the Longitudinal Survey of … Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) to examine the effect of labour force status on the mental health of immigrants. By using a rich … health of immigrants. Other characteristics associated with poor mental health include; age, gender, visa category, marital …
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Introduction: Canada's annual immigrant intake is increasingly composed of visible minorities, with 59% of immigrants …,000 observations. Results: We find that for most forms of cancer screening, recent immigrants have markedly lower utilization rates … ethnicity. Screening rates for white immigrants approach Canadian-born women's utilization rates after 15-20 years in Canada …
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Previous research (Gee, Kobayashi, Prus, 2004) indicates that foreign- born older adults (65 years and older) have poorer health than their Canadian-born counterparts. Using data from the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey, the current study tests two hypotheses to explain the health gap...
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adult working-age women. We analyse the extent to which the prevalence of these cancers among immigrants changes with years … of differences in cancer occurrence among immigrants by ethnicity that change with years spent in the USA, as well as …
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immigrants, the second generation was less dependent on ethnic communities and more sensitive to the changing spatial economy of …
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groups compared to native-born white Canadians. Immigrants generally exhibit significantly lower rates of alcohol consumption … vegetables. Differences are particularly pronounced for immigrants from Asia and Africa, and this is true for both men and women … case of immigrants from Europe and the USA, reach native-born white levels after between 10-20 years in Canada. For other …
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-CMA migration of the immigrants in Canada. The spatial and temporal patterns were consistent with the neoclassical economic theory … and the ethnic enclave theory. In making their decisions on departure and destination choices, the immigrants (both the …-CMA migration of immigrants accentuated the over representation of the immigrants in Toronto and Vancouver in the 91-96 period, the …
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This paper considers the issue of skill mismatch among immigrants and its impact on their remittance behaviour using …
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