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The parent and grandparent immigration program in Canada: costs and proposed changes
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines the need for the parent and grandparent immigration program in Canada and provides critical observations on its objectives and operations and offers empirical estimates on its costs. And, as a contribution to the Government’s recently launched consultations on how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654200
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An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of the Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants Using the 2006 Census PUMF and Some Observations on Their Implications for Immigration Policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532162
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Immigration and the Growing Canada-U.S. Productivity Gap
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764717
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An analysis of the poor performance of recent immigrants and observations on immigration policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132745
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How are the Children of Visible Minority Immigrants Doing in the Canadian Labour Market?
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
immigrants of whom there were 398 thousand aged15 and over who reported employment income in the Census. An encouraging fact … 44 earning employment had earned university certificates or degrees compared to 31 per cent of non-visible minority 2nd …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833277
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Conservative Immigration Policy Reform Has Not Yet Produced Any Significant Improvement in the Aggregate Labour Market Performance of Recent Immigrants
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109516
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Tax Credits For Employment Rather Than Investment: A Comment
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1977
presented a Table showing the effect of substituting a marginal employment tax credit (METC)for the investment tax credit (ITC …) over the 1962 to 1971 period. Their METC was defined in terms of a rate times the increase in the wage bi11 over a base … defined to be the previous year's value. Any base, including the previous year's wage bill base, is of course merely a proxy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695076