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evidence of a small to moderate assimilation effect that suggests that immigrants make up for relatively low entry wages …, although the wage catch-up is not complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in … quality of immigrants' labor market skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a …
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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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earnings in Canada. When looking at the pattern for women, we find only minor differences in the age-earning relationships …
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employment consequences of NHI in Canada, using the fact that NHI was introduced on a staggered basis across the Canadian … provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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This paper analyzes the effects of income taxation on the international migration and earnings of top earners using a Danish preferential foreigner tax scheme and population-wide Danish administrative data. This scheme, introduced in 1991, allows new immigrants with high earnings to be taxed at...
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demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …
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This paper reexamines the empirical basisfor two "facts" which seem to be found in most cross-section studies of immigrant earnings: (1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S.; and (2) this rapid growth leads to many immigrants overtaking the earnings of the...
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-section comparisons of wages and immigration in the 1980 and 1990 Censuses yield unstable results casting doubt on the validity of these …
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outcomes of the four race/sex groups that we consider. Our estimates of the effect of immigration on the wages of less …-skilled natives are sensitive to the specification and estimation procedure. However, our preferred estimates, which are based on … inflows, imply that an increase in immigrants equal to 1 percent of an SMSA's population reduces native wages by roughly 1 …
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We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 … payments crises and natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain, and the UK, in contrast, is largely …
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