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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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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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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 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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