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Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …
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We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can …. Immigration may affect the composition of skills among the residents of a country. Moreover, immigrants can, by changing relative … recent increases in immigration to OECD countries and on the distribution of native and immigrant educational attainment. We …
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traditionally. These results are robust to controls for immigration cohort, years since migration, and other own and spouse …
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Using 1995-2011 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we find that the fertility, education and labor supply of second generation women (US-born women with at least one foreign-born parent) are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's levels of these...
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family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer … hours upon arrival than comparable natives, but, with time in Canada, they are eventually overtaken by native wives. In …
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immigration to the U.S. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that immigrants from these on average high fertility … fertility is also depressed relative to natives in the 1970 cross-section by the tendency of immigration to disrupt fertility …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States--looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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