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Le faible revenu chronique et la dynamique du faible revenu chez les nouveaux immigrants
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Coulombe, Simon - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007
La deterioration des resultats economiques chez les nouveaux immigrants arrives au pays durant les annees 1980 et 1990 a suscite de vives inquietudes dans la population et de nombreux debats strategiques. En 1993, de nouvelles modifications ont ete apportees aux procedures de selection des...
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La hausse du taux de faible revenu chez les immigrants au Canada
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
Fondee sur des donnees de recensement, cette etude du faible revenu chez les immigrants vise a determiner 1) si le taux de faible revenu a augmente chez les cohortes successives de nouveaux immigrants, en valeur absolue, et relativement a celui observe chez les Canadiens de naissance, 2) le cas...
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The Rise in Low-income Rates Among Immigrants in Canada
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
low-income among recent immigrants in all age groups, family types, language groups, education groups, and most of the …This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income … (they have), (2) is this increase due to changes in their characteristics (e.g. education, age, source country, language etc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523614
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Source-country Female Labour Force Participation and the Wages of Immigrant Women in Canada
Frank, Kristyn; Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015
Previous studies have found a strong association between source-country female labour force participation rates and immigrant women?s labour force participation in the host country. This relationship is interpreted as the enduring influence of source-country gender-role attitudes on immigrant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152394
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L?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et les salaires des immigrantes au Canada
Frank, Kristyn; Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015
Des etudes anterieures ont revele une forte association entre le taux d?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et l?activite des immigrantes dans le pays hote. Cette relation est interpretee comme le resultat de l?influence persistante des attitudes a l?egard des roles sexospecifiques dans le...
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Immigration, Low Income and Income Inequality in Canada: What?s New in the 2000s?
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
During the 1980s and 1990s, immigration was associated with the rise in low-income rates and family-income inequality … focuses on the direct effect of immigration on the change in low income and family-income inequality over the 1995-to-2010 … period. The paper outlines recent trends in low-income rates and income inequality for both the Canadian-born and immigrants …
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Immigration, faible revenu et inegalite des revenus au Canada : Quoi de neuf durant les annees 2000?
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014
Au cours des annees 1980 et des annees 1990, l?immigration etait associee a la hausse des taux de faible revenu et de l?inegalite des revenus familiaux au Canada. Durant les annees 2000, le marche du travail et le processus de selection des immigrants ont fait l?objet de changements importants....
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Neighbourhood Inequality, Relative Deprivation and Self-perceived Health Status
Hou, Feng; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004
This study examines the relationship between individuals' health status and the socio-economic composition of the neighbourhoods in which they live. It combines individual microdata from Statistics Canada's 1996-97 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) with neighbourhood-level characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523635
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Inegalites au niveau des quartiers, privation relative et etat de sante autoevalue
Hou, Feng; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004
Dans cette etude, on examine le lien entre l'etat de sante des personnes et la composition socioeconomique des quartiers dans lesquels elles vivent. De plus, cette etude permet de coupler les microdonnees des particuliers tirees de l'Enquete nationale sur la sante de la population (ENSP) de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005322005
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Changes in the Regional Distribution of New Immigrants to Canada
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Bonikowska, Aneta - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2015
Canada and the United States have recently experienced an increase in the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs), as well as...
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