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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …

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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Canada’s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …

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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being

Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …

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Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the...

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FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?

DeVoretz, Don J.; Battisti, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada … Union allows an exogenous supply change in the number and type of FSU immigrants potentially destined to enter Canada. For …

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A Model of Foreign-Born Transfers: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data

DeVoretz, Don J.; Vadean, Florin P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper models financial transfers outside the household for both the Canadian-born and foreign-born Canadian populations in a traditional expenditure framework. Using survey data we estimate transfer functions as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for...

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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …

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The Immigration Triangle: Quebec, Canada and the Rest of the World

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

this acquired human capital in the niche area (Quebec) or the rest of Canada (ROC). The individual move stay-decision in … migration decision for both the foreignborn and Canadian-born populations in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. …

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The Economics of Citizenship: A Common Intellectual Ground for Social Scientists?

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Economists studying the economic behaviour of immigrants have tended to avoid serious interdisciplinary work. I argue that when presented with a particular set of research questions that lend themselves to a utility maximisation framework, an economist will be able to pursue interdisciplinary...

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How Much Language is Enough? Some Immigrant Language Lessons from Canada and Germany

DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … immigration act that will presumably come into effect on January 1, 2003, does not only concentrate on control aspects but also …

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