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First to $ 15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places
Fossati, Sebastian; Marchand, Joseph T. - 2022 - This version: December 23, 2022
Most minimum wage studies are identified on small, plentiful, and expected wage changes, spread out over time. A recent set of changes have instead been large, unexpected, and quick, following the "Fight for $ 15" movement. Alberta is the first state or province to have this $ 15 minimum wage,...
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How does economic integration change personal income taxation? : Evidence from a new index of potential labor mobility
Protte, Benjamin - 2012
In this paper, I estimate the effect of increasing labor mobility on personal income tax schedules. I combine rich data on effective personal income tax levels in a panel of OECD countries for the period 1986-2005 with a new Index of Potential Labor Mobility. This index allows to tackle issues...
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Temporary foreign workers and firms : theory and Canadian evidence
Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016
less-skilled domestic workers when a TFW program of this kind is in place. The model also implies higher unemployment rates …
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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey
Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017
immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … Canadian-born-and-educated (CBE) and foreign-born-and-educated (FBE) counterparts. We find that FISs outperform FBE immigrants … and new immigrants without a commensurate increase in their supply. …
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Immigration and innovation : evidence from Canadian cities
Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2017
per capita patents. The Canadian case is of interest because its 'points system' for selecting immigrants is viewed as a … Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …
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The political economy of immigration and population ageing
Dotti, Valerio - 2016 - This version 25th June 2016
I investigate the effects of population ageing on immigration policies. Voters' attitude towards immigrants depends on …
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Fifty years a-growing : economic history and demography in the ESR
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
This paper surveys publications in the fields of economic history and demography in the ESR since 1969. Numbering sixty in all, they cover a broad chronological and thematic range. Some of these papers never attracted much notice, but stand as useful sources for future historians. A few have...
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Brain drain and brain gain in Italy and Ireland in the age of mass migration
Gomellini, Matteo; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure improved the living standards of those they left behind is hardly in doubt. Nevertheless, a voluminous literature on the selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and...
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Taking the skill bias out of global migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2018
Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a quantitative multi-country model with trade, we compare...
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Across the sea to Ireland : return Atlantic migration before the First World War
Fernihough, Alan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019
Are return migrants 'losers' who fail to adapt to the challenges of the host economy, and thereby exacerbate the brain drain linked to emigration? Or are they 'winners' whose return enhances the human and physical capital of the home country? These questions are the subject of a burgeoning...
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