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model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …
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I investigate the effects of population ageing on immigration policies. Voters' attitude towards immigrants depends on … how the net gains from immigration are divided up in the society by the fiscal policy. In the theoretical literature this … between immigration and fiscal policies and solve this apparent inconsistency. I show that the elderly and the poor have a …
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Firm ownership is a defining feature of immigrant adaptation with 41% of immigrants owning a firm at some point in their first 10 years after arrival. We use rich Canadian administrative data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process by which...
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Canada is not well-positioned to leverage heightened immigration to boost GDP per capita owing primarily to weak capital … increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration … examine the potential for increases in Canadian immigration levels to achieve this objective. Our analysis suggests that …
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welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
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