This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 …) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

skilled immigrants resulted from a series of distinct labour market policies adopted by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and …This paper identifies the types of immigrants that Canada has recruited to foster modern Canadian economic development … and assesses how effective Canada has been in recruiting and retaining these required immigrants in the 21st century …

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 …

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …

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 …