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Immigrant Earnings Distributions and Earnings Mobility in Canada: Evidence for the 1982 Landing Cohort from IMDB Micro Data
Abbott, Michael; Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
(independent economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and separately for men and women. We find that there was … for refugees. But the growth rate of earnings was highest among refugees, so that by the tenth post-landing year refugees … independent economic immigrants, followed by refugees. Earnings mobility was substantially greater for immigrants than for earners …
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Marché du travail en revue - Septembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon de nombreuses recherches, il semble que les immigrants plus qualifiés, en particulier dans les domaines des sciences, de la technologie, de l’ingénierie et des mathématiques, sont non seulement plus innovateurs que leurs collègues nés au pays qui les a reçus, mais qu’ils ont...
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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada’s Evolving Approach to Immigration Selection
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, W. Craig - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better...
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Labour Market Matters - September 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
A growing body of research suggests that skilled immigrants, particularly those in the “STEM†fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), are not only more innovative than their native-born counterparts but also have the potential to produce positive productivity...
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Seeking Success in Canada and the United States: the Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
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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Temporary Foreign Workers and Former International Students as a Source of Permanent Immigration
Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
We compare the economic outcomes of former Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) and former international students to immigrants who have no Canadian human capital at the time of landing. First, controlling for all possible variables that are adjustable under the current Canadian points system, we...
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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
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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Immigration and Location Choices of Native-Born Workers in Canada
Aydede, Yigit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar to those of native-born workers, they may compete directly with them, and this competition may lead to lower economic returns for native-born workers. This view can be called...
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Marché du travail en revue - Octobre 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Au Canada, environ 20 % des emplois sont réglementés. En moyenne, ces emplois sont mieux rémunérés car ils exigent en général un meilleur niveau d’éducation ou de formation et la réglementation contrôlant l’accès à ces emplois tend à en restreindre l’admission. La politique...
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
While not speaking either English or French is widely understood to be a serious barrier to employment and gainful remuneration in Canada, a study entitled “The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 144) by Alicia...
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