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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139041
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139049
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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants : A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter - 2012
Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099094
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Foreign Scientists and Engineers and Economic Growth in Canadian Labor Markets
Peri, Giovanni - 2013
population making Canada a very good case to analyze the effect of foreign-STEM workers on the local economy. We use the … foreign-STEM workers in Canada, and also a college bias in their contribution to productivity growth. Compared to the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082144
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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 James - 2018
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926700
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Is Precarious Employment Bad for Worker Health? The Case of Zero Hours Contracts in the UK
Farina, Egidio - 2020
The increasing numbers of workers in employment with little to no job security, so-called precarious employment, has led to a range of concerns over worker outcomes. A particular focus is the effect of instability on health in general, and particularly, mental health. We provide new evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837326
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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes : A Comparison of the United States and Canada
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2006
the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779354
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The Relative Labour Market Performance of Former International Students : Evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong - 2017
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958043
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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930913
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The Great Canadian Recovery : The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville; Lange, Fabian; … - 2022
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081272