We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … occupations in Canada. We supplement the analysis using Census estimates for the same cohort with source country occupational … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely …

Canada. We first augment a model of occupational choice and skill accumulation to derive predictions about the cross …-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then test the empirical implications using the skill requirements of pre- and post-immigration … occupations. We find that male immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that required high levels of …

the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches … case of IMGs migrating to the US and Canada since the 1960s and evaluate the empirical predictions from the model based on … an analysis of the occupational outcomes of IMGs in Canada (where a point system has been in place) and in the US (where …

child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and … the second generation have on average integrated very well economically. We examine the importance of Canada's admission … parent's subsequent income in Canada. …

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal … practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …

state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … of immigration on labor market outcomes of native workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …