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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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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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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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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...

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Immigrant Earnings Differences Across Admission Categories and Landing Cohorts in Canada

Abbott, Michael G.; Beach, Charles M. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual landing cohorts (those for the years 1982, 1988, and 1994) over the … for both male and female immigrants in all three landing cohorts. Family class immigrants or refugees generally had the … lowest earnings levels. An important related finding is that refugees exhibited substantially the highest earnings growth …

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Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew but not Samir? New evidence from Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

Dechief, Diane; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

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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Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Canadian Evidence from a Large Administrative Database on Firm Closures and Mass Layoffs

Frenette, Marc; Morissette, René; Zhang, Xuelin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

Using Statistics Canadaâ€™s Longitudinal Worker File, we document short-term and long-term earnings losses for a large (10%) sample of Canadian workers who lost their job through firm closures or mass layoffs during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Our use of a nationally representative sample...

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Public Policy and the Economic Wellbeing of Elderly Immigrants

Baker, Michael; Benjamin, Dwayne; Fan, Elliot - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

In this paper we document the economic outcomes of elderly immigrants to Canada. Our objective is to describe the extent to which elderly immigrants may have low income (are â€œin povertyâ€) and their interactions with the Canadian income transfer system. The study has two main parts....

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Entry Earnings of Canadaâ€™s Immigrants over the Past Quarter Century: the Roles of Changing Characteristics and Returns to Skills

Hou, Feng - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

We examine whether the factors associated with the rise in the Canadian born - immigrant entry earnings gap played different roles in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early 2000s. We find that for recent immigrant men, shifts in population characteristics had the most important effect in the 1980s...

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