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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2008
of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268855
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Macroeconomic impacts of Canadian immigration: Results from a macro-model
Dungan, Peter; Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley - 2012
in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287634
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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2004
Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262137
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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2005
Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262189
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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272933
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262281
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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
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Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities
Cohen, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - 2002
This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262725
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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002
This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262777
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The effects of naturalization on immigrants' employment probability (France, 1968 - 1999)
Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - 2008
Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268564