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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada …
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numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large significant elasticity of migrant numbers to GDP … shocks at destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor … that minimum wages bind and demand is price sensitive without these distortions …
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elasticity of the migrant labor supply that we take to the data using the evolution of the numbers and wages of temporary …
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through which age at immigration affects fertility. College graduates arriving to Canada anytime before adulthood behave as …
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Male immigrants are observed to be disproportionately employed in ICT information and communication technology (ICT) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document differences in skill levels and labour market earnings across immigration classes and categories...
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, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain …
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voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …
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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...
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This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada … Union allows an exogenous supply change in the number and type of FSU immigrants potentially destined to enter Canada. For …
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Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and reexamined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model to correct for both worker and workplace unobserved...
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