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This paper reviews the recent research on labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and the United States (i.e., the 2nd generation), and its determinants. The paper focuses on outcome gaps between the 2nd and third-and-higher generations, as well as the intergenerational...
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The mobility of immigrants’ earnings and their experience in getting ahead in the Canadian labour market are reflection of the general state of economic opportunity in Canada. High or increasing degrees of upward mobility of earnings may indicate increasing opportunities for economic...
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immigrantes dans les années immédiatement avant et après leur immigration. À l’aide des dossiers confidentiels des recensements de … rapprocher de celle des femmes nées au Canada, à peu près deux ans après l’immigration. Il existe quelques différences dans la …’Asie présentent les plus faibles taux de fécondité pendant les premières années après l’immigration. De fait, ces groupes n …
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In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions at the time of arrival may be crucial in determining immigrants’ economic assimilation into the new country, as households with infants usually face large expenses and...
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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...
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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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les systèmes d’immigration ainsi que les structures d’enseignement sont peut-être les raisons de ces différences entre la …
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There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar … is effective, immigration might lead to out-migration of the nonimmigrant population from a community in the short run … industry-specific immigration density differentials across regions are measured only at destinations, they have strong and …
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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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