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the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …
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Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …
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Canada’s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
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in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …
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. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration …Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden … experience. The nature of immigration and structural differences involving the domestic labour markets are hypothesized to …
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We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East Germany experienced a very large, but temporary, drop in birth rates mostly driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a...
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It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the choices of others are not even presented to the subjects, but just indirectly perceived. We use the...
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Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the...
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We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery...
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This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …
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