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We use longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records to estimate the earnings growth of immigrants from three entering cohorts since the early 1980s. Selective attrition by low-earning immigrants might result in lower earnings growth with years since migration in longitudinal data...
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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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age dimensions of immigration to Canada since 1980, and the evolution of policies directed towards older immigrants (i ….e., immigration selection, and eligibility for age-related social security programs). Second, using the SCF and SLID surveys spanning …
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The number of immigrants working in regulated and unregulated occupations is unknown. A major contribution of this study is that we use Statistics Canada data to classify occupations, across provinces, into regulated and unregulated categories and then to examine the covariates of membership in...
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Immigrant selection rules were altered in the early 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the share of entering immigrants with a university degree and in the skilled economic class. These changes were very successfully implemented following significant deterioration in entry earnings...
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In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over different points of the wage distribution. The well-documented decline in the immigrant-Canadian born mean wage gap hides a much larger decline at the low end of the wage...
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rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des …
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There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar … is effective, immigration might lead to out-migration of the nonimmigrant population from a community in the short run … industry-specific immigration density differentials across regions are measured only at destinations, they have strong and …
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remuneration in Canada, a study entitled “The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant menâ … immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …
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immigration can cause increases in crime is warranted, considering the fact that there is much empirical evidence that suggest the …€œImmigration and Crime: Evidence from Canada†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 135) analyses the relationship between immigration and crime … could be expected that a selective immigration policy of this nature, may bring more “complementary†new immigrant …
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