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Firm ownership is a defining feature of immigrant adaptation with 41% of immigrants owning a firm at some point in their first 10 years after arrival. We use rich Canadian administrative data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process by which...
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welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
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increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration … examine the potential for increases in Canadian immigration levels to achieve this objective. Our analysis suggests that … Canada is not well-positioned to leverage heightened immigration to boost GDP per capita owing primarily to weak capital …
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We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New...
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I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the … curve, which draws the classical inverse relation between the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate, before, during …, and after the 2020-2021 pandemic. Since immigration not only expands the supply of labour, but also adds to the demand for …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …
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