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We analyze a newly available dataset of migration policy decisions reported by governments to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs between 1976 and 2007. We find evidence indicating that most governments have policies aimed at either maintaining the status quo or at...
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A previous result by Kemnitz (2001) based on AK type endogenous growth model implied that the gains from immigration … Romer (1991), it is shown that immigration entails Pareto improvement even when immigrants posses no physical capital in …
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This publication provides an estimate of the fiscal burden created by recent immigration into Canada and proposes … growing fiscal burden from immigration, the study proposes that temporary work visas be granted to applicants who have a valid …
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implications of its analysis for immigration policy. …
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In international forums the EU calls for freedom of movement for goods, services and capital. Freedom of movement of labour - labour migration in other words - is excluded from this claim, certainly in relation to medium- and low-skilled labour. This paper addresses two questions. Firstly, what...
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This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … census). It is estimated that immigration accounts for 2.23 percentage points, or about a fifth, of the 10.96 percentage …
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Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative … landing file from Citizenship and Immigration with the T1 Family File (T1FF) from the Canada Revenue Agency. As this database … ambitious immigration reforms introduced by the Conservative Government. The conclusion of the paper is that the overall …
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Despite recent interest in regionalization of immigration in host nations, most studies have analyzed immigrants …
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the 2006 Census. As the composition of immigration inflows has shifted after 1980 from the traditional European source …
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While the Coalition Government was in power in Australia from 1996 to 2007, new immigrants have had to face tougher … obtained by new immigrants to Australia and whether the policy change has contributed to improve or worsen job quality among … methods and test whether they were affected by the policy changes. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia …
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