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literature. This paper identifies the causal linkages between immigration and crime using panel data constructed from the Uniform …-abiding immigrants can fully explain the size of the estimates. This suggests that immigration has a spillover effect, such as changing … that immigration is associated with higher crime rates. …
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immigration can cause increases in crime is warranted, considering the fact that there is much empirical evidence that suggest the …€œImmigration and Crime: Evidence from Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 135) analyses the relationship between immigration and crime … could be expected that a selective immigration policy of this nature, may bring more “complementary†new immigrant …
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la question de savoir si l’immigration peut augmenter le taux de criminalité, quand on considère le fait qu’il existe des … affilié du RCCMTC Haimin Zhang (Université de la Colombie-Britannique) et intitulée « L’immigration et le crime : éléments de … preuve au Canada » (Rapport de recherche du RCCMTC n° 135) analyse le rapport entre l’immigration et la criminalité et …
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This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of immigrants (the 2nd generation) in Canada and the United States. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the 2nd and 3rd-and-higher generations (the children of...
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Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes » (Rapport de...
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This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a novel measure of linguistic proximity of the...
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immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …
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The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive...
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Despite a history built on immigration, immigrants are among those who struggle the most in Canada. Recent research … population is expected to impose a heavy fiscal burden through age-related programs like pensions and health care, immigration is … often looked upon as a possible way to mitigate that burden. Immigration can also help break skilled labour shortages and …
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and workers with no pre-immigration Canadian human capital. Predicting the points that immigrants would obtain based on … gender. We find that both male and female Principal Applicants entering through the Skilled Worker program perform much …
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