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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- international migration ; effects of immigration …
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immigrant selection regimes (primarily family reunion in the US, skill-based immigration in Australia) do not impact on the … negative association between occupational status and pre-immigration labour market experience. -- Immigrants ; occupation …
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This study develops a theoretical framework for the study of the tendency for immigrant groups to be geographically concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively related to age at migration, duration of residence...
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We simulate the impact of an increase in immigration into the Atlantic provinces based on the FOCUS macro … immigration for the country as a whole. The positive outcome encompasses higher GDP and GDP per capita, higher consumption, and …
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. -- macroeconomic impact ; immigration ; FOCUS Model ; Canada … in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …
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international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons … are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a … effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or …
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international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
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Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with …This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …
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