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Labour Market Matters - June 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
According to the standard economic model of crime, which assumes that individuals are rational decisions makers who consider the opportunity cost of crime and take into account the possibility of getting caught and punished; the concern that immigration can cause increases in crime is warranted,...
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Marché du travail en revue - Juin 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon le modèle économique normal de la criminalité, qui suppose que les gens prennent des décisions de façon rationnelle, en considérant le coût d’opportunité du crime et en tenant compte de la possibilité d’être pris et puni, on se pose la question de savoir si l’immigration...
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Returns to Skill, Tax Policy, and North American Migration by Skill Level: Canada and the United States 1995 - 2001
Hunt, Gary L.; Mueller, Richard E. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
Higher after-tax returns to skill in U.S. states compared to Canadian provinces have raised the issue that higher skilled Canadian workers especially will find migration to the U.S. economically attractive, and especially so after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), provisions of...
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Labour Market Matters - March 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
admission class fare relative to those arriving in other classes. A paper entitled “The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to … Waterloo) focuses on the fertility outcomes of migrants around the years immediately before and after migration. Using data … differences in fertility across origins that suggest that cultural differences matters. European, American and Asian immigrants …
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Marché du travail en revue - Mars 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
La mobilité des rémunérations des immigrants et l’expérience de leur progression sur le marché du travail canadien sont le reflet de l’état général des possibilités économiques au Canada. Des niveaux élevés ou en hausse de la mobilité croissante des revenus peuvent indiquer une...
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
Ferrer, Ana - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
This paper explores the fertility patterns of immigrant children to Canada using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian … Census from 1991 through 2006. Fertility increases with age at immigration, with a sharp rise for those immigrating in their … mechanism through which age at immigration affects fertility – fertility of immigrants with an official mother tongue also …
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Selecting Economic Immigrants: An Actuarial Approach
McHale, John; Rogers, Keith - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
There is growing international interest in a Canadian-style points system for selecting economic immigrants. Although existing points systems have been influenced by the human capital literature, the findings have traditionally been incorporated in an ad hoc way. This paper explores a formal...
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Immigration and Crime: Evidence from Canada
Zhang, Haimin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
There is growing belief in many developed countries, including Canada, that the large influx of the foreign-born population increases crime. Despite the heated public discussion, the immigrant-crime relationship is understudied in the literature. This paper identifies the causal linkages between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184405
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Introduction to Price and Productivity Measurement for Housing
Balk, Bert M.; Diewert, Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
This paper provides a brief introduction to a proposed new opportunity cost treatment of owner occupied housing in measures of inflation for the United States. In addition, the paper introduces, and provides links to, a collection of nine other papers that discuss various aspects of the...
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Comment on Different Approaches to Index Number Theory
Diewert, Erwin; Hill, Robert J. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
Van Veelen and van der Weide (2008) in a recent paper provided some interesting new perspectives on the index number problem. However, the present paper argues that their definitions of a true index and an exact index are different from the standard definitions in the literature. The differences...
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