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Labour Market Matters - June 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
existing jobs; however, if a “substitution†situation is the reality immigration can lead to out-migration of the non …
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Marché du travail en revue - Juin 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon le modèle économique normal de la criminalité, qui suppose que les gens prennent des décisions de façon rationnelle, en considérant le coût d’opportunité du crime et en tenant compte de la possibilité d’être pris et puni, on se pose la question de savoir si l’immigration...
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Immigration and Location Choices of Native-Born Workers in Canada
Aydede, Yigit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
is effective, immigration might lead to out-migration of the nonimmigrant population from a community in the short run …. Models in location-choice studies usually examine the migration decision in two separate processes: whether-to and where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184394
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Selecting Economic Immigrants: An Actuarial Approach
McHale, John; Rogers, Keith - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems have been influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally been incorporated in an ad hoc way. This paper explores a formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468947
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Returns to Skill, Tax Policy, and North American Migration by Skill Level: Canada and the United States 1995 - 2001
Hunt, Gary L.; Mueller, Richard E. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
skilled Canadian workers especially will find migration to the U.S. economically attractive, and especially so after the North … American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), provisions of which facilitate such cross-country migration through special visas. In … this study we develop, estimate, and simulate a nested logit model of migration among 59 Canadian and U.S. sub …
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Immigration and Crime: Evidence from Canada
Zhang, Haimin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
There is growing belief in many developed countries, including Canada, that the large influx of the foreign-born population increases crime. Despite the heated public discussion, the immigrant-crime relationship is understudied in the literature. This paper identifies the causal linkages between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184405
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Immigrant Earnings Differences Across Admission Categories and Landing Cohorts in Canada
Abbott, Michael G.; Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four major admission categories (skill-assessed independent economic principal applicants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual...
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Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew but not Samir? New evidence from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver
Dechief, Diane; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
In earlier work (Oreopoulos, 2009), thousands of resumes were sent in response to online job postings across Toronto to investigate why Canadian immigrants struggle in the labor market. The findings suggested significant discrimination by name ethnicity and city of experience. This follow-up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492673
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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Canadian Evidence from a Large Administrative Database on Firm Closures and Mass Layoffs
Frenette, Marc; Morissette, René; Zhang, Xuelin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Using Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File, we document short-term and long-term earnings losses for a large (10%) sample of Canadian workers who lost their job through firm closures or mass layoffs during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Our use of a nationally representative sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512497
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Public Policy and the Economic Wellbeing of Elderly Immigrants
Baker, Michael; Benjamin, Dwayne; Fan, Elliot - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
In this paper we document the economic outcomes of elderly immigrants to Canada. Our objective is to describe the extent to which elderly immigrants may have low income (are “in povertyâ€) and their interactions with the Canadian income transfer system. The study has two main parts....
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