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Does immigration help alleviate economy-wide labour shortages?
Fortin, Pierre - 2024
I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the country, particularly in Quebec, which enjoys some autonomy of management in this area. I look at movements of the Beveridge curve, which draws the classical inverse relation...
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A detailed description of OGRE, the OLG model
Baksa, Daniel; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2016
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Aging, (pension) reforms and the shadow economy in Southern Europe
Baksa, Daniel; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2016
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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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Brexit and foreign students in gravity
Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024 - This version: February 2024
This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate … student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one …
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Research on labour market impacts of the temporary foreign worker program
Cardoso, Miguel; Haan, Michael; Lombardo, Federico; … - 2023 - Revised Final Report
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Trade, migration, and the place premium : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy; Robertson, Raymond - 2014
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"The best country in the world" : the surprising social mobility of New York’s Irish famine immigrants
Anbinder, Tyler; Ó Gráda, Cormac; Wegge, Simone - 2021
We use databases we have created from the records of New York's Emigrant Savings Bank, founded by pre-Famine Irish immigrants and their children to serve Famine era immigrants, to study the social mobility of bank customers and, by extension, Irish immigrants more generally. We infer that New...
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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 … selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and receiving country perspectives - has given rise to claims that migration … level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both …
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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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