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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141
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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income (relative to native-born women) than do U.S. female immigrants. A prominent explanation for this skill deficit of U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262676
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Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? : Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Kuhn, Peter; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2004
How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant earnings assimilation? Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from Australia, Canada, and the United States, we estimate the separate effects of arrival cohort and duration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276820
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Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Kuhn, Peter; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2003
How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant earnings assimilation? Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from Australia, Canada, and the United States, we estimate the separate effects of arrival cohort and duration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261539
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Monetary policy transparency, public commentary, and market perceptions about monetary policy in Canada
Siklos, Pierre L. - 2000
Die Einführung von Inflationszielen in Kanada im Jahr 1991 verdeutlichte angeblich das Ziel der Geldpolitik, nämlich … können, inwieweit es der Bank von Kanada gelingt, die Inflation stabil auf niedrigem Niveau zu halten. Deshalb liegt die … Frage nahe, ob tatsächlich - wie der Präsident der Zentralbank kürzlich feststellte - ' ... die Erfolge der Bank von Kanada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295696
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
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A Comparison of the Earnings of Immigrants in Canada, United States, Australia and Germany
Kabrelyan, Dmitri - 2000
The legislation on employment equity is designed to protect the rights of all persons to equitable treatment in employment, but particularly those who belong to groups designated as disadvantaged. This paper tests the hypothesis that immigrants could be defined as such disadvantaged group. It...
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Using Financial Market Information to Enhance Canadian Fiscal Policy
Lloyd-Ellis, Huw; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2004
In this article we argue that the evaluation and implementation of Canadian fiscal policy could be significantly improved through the systematic use of information provided by global financial markets. In particular, we show how the information contained in internationally traded asset returns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940660
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Impacts of the Point System and Immigration Policy Levers on Skill Characteristics of Canadian Immigrants
Beach, Charles; Green, Alan G.; Worswick, Christopher - 2006
This paper examines how changes in immigration policy levers actually affect the skill characteristics of immigrant arrivals using a unique Canadian immigrant landings database. We first review the Canadian experience with a point system as part of its immigrant policy. Section III of the paper...
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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship
DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - 2004
Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic costs and benefits derived from citizenship to rationalize the differential rates of citizenship ascension. Canadian earnings evidence confirms the sizable economic benefits of...
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