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Chinese immigrants in Vancouver : quo vadis?

Guo, Shibao (contributor); DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2006

This paper reports findings from a Vancouver study which examines the settlement and adaptation experience of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study reveals that non-economic reasons, such as the environment, education and citizenship, constituted the primary motivations for Chinese...

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The changing face of Chinese immigrants in Canada

Guo, Shibao (contributor); DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper analyzes the changing characteristics of Chinese immigrants to Canada between 1980 and 2001. It reveals that recent Chinese immigrants to Canada constitute a substantially different group from those of former years. They are no longer a homogeneous group from the rural areas of...

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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market : effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012

green card has a significant positive effect on skilled migrants' labor market outcomes. -- immigration ; Chinese Student …

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Superstition in the housing market

Fortin, Nicole Marie; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - 2013

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...

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Making it work : the mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs in New Zealand

Cain, Trudie; Spoonley, Paul - 2013

In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...

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Earnings gap, cohort effect and economic assimilation of immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …

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The economic consequences of "Brain Drain" of the best and brightest : microeconomic evidence from five countries

Gibson, John K.; McKenzie, David J. - 2010

; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …

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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013

effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …

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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives

Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants. Using data from the 1980-2000 U.S. censuses and the 2005- 2010 American Community Surveys, we show that these wage premiums have increased over time. Our evidence suggests that...

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Social ties and the job search of recent immigrants

Goel, Deepti; Lang, Kevin - 2016

In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential in jobs found using networks versus those found...

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