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Living and working in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas

Beckhusen, Julia; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Graaff, … - 2012

Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the population, potentially leading to better paying jobs and economic success in the new country....

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The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men in Canada

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015

This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the...

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A comparative analysis of the labour market performance of university‐educated immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : does policy matter?

Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana M.; Skuterud, Mikal - 2018

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in...

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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants

Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...

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Measuring cultural diversity and its impact on innovation : longitudinal evidence from Dutch firms

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2013

. -- immigration ; innovation ; cultural diversity ; knowledge spillovers ; linked administrative and survey data …To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and …

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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation : evidence from Dutch firm-level data

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

; innovation ; cultural diversity ; knowledge spillovers ; linked employer-employee data ; Netherlands … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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