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Temporary foreign workers and firms : theory and Canadian evidence
Brochu, Pierre; Gross, Till; Worswick, Christopher - 2016
The goal of our paper is to better understand the economic implications of Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) programs as well as comprehend the underlying reasons for the rapid expansion of the number of TFWs hired by employers under the Canadian program brought to light in 2014. We present an...
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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
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The earnings effects of occupational segregation in Europe : the role of gender and migration status
Palencia-Esteban, Amaia; Río Otero, Coral del - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425484
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The 2015 European refugee crisis and residential housing rents in Germany
Kürschner Rauck, Kathleen; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2018
We study the impact of the 2015 mass arrival of refugees to Germany on residential housing rents. Using unique data on … 2015 if a larger share of refugees is housed in decentralized accommodation. Various robustness checks corroborate our …
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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
quantitative multi-country model with trade, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with the same number of migrants …, where all migrants are neutrally selected from their countries of origin. We find that most receiving countries benefit from …
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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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Does migrants' consumption of cultural goods impact on their economic integration? : disclosing the culture-to-market pathway
Carrozzo, Salvatore; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Venturini, … - 2024
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The performance of migrants in the Australian labour force
Hancock, J. - 1986
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Immigration and crimes against natives : the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany
Huang, Yue; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2019
In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035562