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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
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 which facilitate such cross-country migration through special visas. In … this study we develop, estimate, and simulate a nested logit model of migration among 59 Canadian and U.S. sub …
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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 - October 2012
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
About 20% of Canadians work in regulated occupations. On average, regulated occupations are expected to provide higher pay because they generally require a high level of education and/or training, and the regulations governing access to these occupations tend to restrict entrance into them....
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Labour Market Matters - June 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
existing jobs; however, if a “substitution†situation is the reality immigration can lead to out-migration of the non …
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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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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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A Community College Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...
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Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth
Bowlus, Audra J.; Robinson, Chris - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Separate identification of the price and quantity of human capital has important implications for understanding key issues in economics. Price and quantity series are derived for four education levels. The price series are highly correlated and they exhibit a strong secular trend. Three...
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Universal Early Childhood Interventions: What is the Evidence Base?
Baker, Michael - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011
Universality is a hallmark of Canadian social policy for very young children. The evidence base for these policies is small, non-experimental and offers mixed results. In contrast the evidence base for targeted early childhood interventions is largely experimental and offers strong guidance....
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