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dits collègues. On constate des preuves de l’urgence de politiques nationales d’immigration qui attireraient les immigrants … Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés (LIPR) a modifié le système de sélection des immigrants qualifiés en … sur le capital humain. Une étude intitulée « Nouvelles directions dans les politiques de l’immigration : L …
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. Our results suggest that the benefit of a point system for the U.S. lies in its potential to limit unskilled immigration … flows, rather than in raising skills at the top end of the distribution where the economic growth potential of immigration …
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urgency for national immigration policies that attract skilled migrants. Devising the optimal policy for the acquisition of … immigration flows at the upper end of the skills distribution – where economic growth potential is highest – in reality, such … a system tends to have more influence on immigration flows at the bottom end of the distribution. The Federal Skilled …
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Research comparing the labour market performance of recent cohorts of immigrants to Australia and Canada points to superior employment and earnings outcomes in Australia. Examining Australian and Canadian Census data between 1986 and 2006, we find that this performance advantage is not driven by...
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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...
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age dimensions of immigration to Canada since 1980, and the evolution of policies directed towards older immigrants (i ….e., immigration selection, and eligibility for age-related social security programs). Second, using the SCF and SLID surveys spanning …
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The number of immigrants working in regulated and unregulated occupations is unknown. A major contribution of this study is that we use Statistics Canada data to classify occupations, across provinces, into regulated and unregulated categories and then to examine the covariates of membership in...
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Immigrant selection rules were altered in the early 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the share of entering immigrants with a university degree and in the skilled economic class. These changes were very successfully implemented following significant deterioration in entry earnings...
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We use longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records to estimate the earnings growth of immigrants from three entering cohorts since the early 1980s. Selective attrition by low-earning immigrants might result in lower earnings growth with years since migration in longitudinal data...
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In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over … country of origin of immigrants. Interestingly, the most important source of change in the wages of immigrants relative to the …, and thus, in the wages, of Canadian born workers relative to immigrants. …
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