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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada’s Evolving Approach to Immigration Selection
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a … commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest cities to other regions of the country. These … programs. The paper discusses the recent changes to Canadian immigration policy and examines the preliminary results achieved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184404
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Labour Market Matters - September 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184461
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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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Public Policy and the Economic Wellbeing of Elderly Immigrants
Baker, Michael; Benjamin, Dwayne; Fan, Elliot - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497086
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs— that is, glass ceilings— is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage …rms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479341
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Working In a Regulated Occupation in Canada: An Immigrant - Native-Born Comparison
Girard, Magali; Smith, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479343
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The Effect of Immigrant Selection and the IT Bust on the Entry Earnings of Immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004978948
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Immigrant Earnings Growth: Selection Bias or Real Progress?
Picot, Garnett; Piraino, Patrizio - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773975
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Why are the Relative Wages of Immigrants Declining? A Distributional Approach
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over different points of the wage distribution. The well-documented decline in the immigrant-Canadian born mean wage gap hides a much larger decline at the low end of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675216
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Incidence and Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Canada: the Role of Family Background and Immigrant Status
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Immigrant men and women in Canada from recent arrival cohorts have especially low rates of having an apprenticeship credential when compared to either their counterparts from earlier arrival cohorts or the Canadian born. Among the native born, a second generation man is more likely to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800179