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files of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) and the Labour Force Survey (2006-2013). We find that TFWs in Canada work longer …
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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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Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new …
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model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …
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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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I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the …La présente étude analyse l'effet de la politique d'immigration expansive du Canada amorcée en 2016 sur la pénurie de …, and after the 2020-2021 pandemic. Since immigration not only expands the supply of labour, but also adds to the demand for …
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observed wage gap between immigrant and native-born workers in Canada is attributable to departures from their potential wage …
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Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particularly bad at tracking immigrants? Using nineteenth-century Irish immigrants as a test case, we...
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Women in economics follow different career paths than men, facing differential treatment when it comes to journal acceptance as well as promotion. We focus on a selfdirected measure of productivity: working paper output. This avoids potential sex biases in the peer-review process. We find that...
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