: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …

Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …

Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it … increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration …

distribution. We test and confirm these implications using a survey of recent immigrants into Canada. We develop a simple …

labor supply. We find that more skilled US-born workers – along with unrestricted immigrants from Mexico and Canada – moved … farmers to shift toward capital-intensive agriculture and discouraged entry from unrestricted workers …