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effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an …
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model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …
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Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …
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, constituted the primary motivations for Chinese immigrants to move to Canada. Employment and language facilities were the most … hindered integration and increased dissatisfaction with their lives in Canada. Given the logic of our posited triangular …
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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 …. Immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan shared more commonalities than with those from Mainland China. Given Canada's time dependent …
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This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...
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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 … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
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This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing … not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also regarding admittance policies and the rights and … benefits to grant to foreigners. In general, Spaniards support less immigration, and more selectivity based on skills and …
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