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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 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...
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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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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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Malgré une histoire construite avec l’immigration, les immigrants sont les personnes qui ont le plus de difficultés au … considère souvent que l’immigration serait un moyen possible d’atténuer ce fardeau. L’immigration peut aussi aider à réduire la … travailleurs nés au pays. Importer des gens au moyen de l’immigration en vue de produire des produits et des services peut …
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in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …
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This paper extends our understanding of the difference in university participation between students with and without immigrant backgrounds by contrasting outcomes in Switzerland and Canada, and by the use of new longitudinal data that are comparable between the countries. The research includes...
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