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Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …
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complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …
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. We provide empirical support for our explanation with a comparison of trends between the U.S. and Canada, and a …
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. We examine U.S. and Canadian children with symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most common … child mental health problem. Our innovations include the use of large nationally representative samples of children, the use … of questions administered to all children rather than focusing only on diagnosed cases, and the use of sibling fixed …
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capital accumulation. To distinguish between theories, we use new data on the characteristics of immigrants and non-migrants …
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Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives as they gain experience is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. For the US, it has been difficult to answer this question for the period when the immigration rate was at its historical peak, between the 1840s and...
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This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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employment and hours worked, but wages were unaffected. Investment in durable goods and children's education also slowed in these … communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market …
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