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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...
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Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance : benefiting from highly skilled immigrants requires a complementary mix of immigrant selection and economic...
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2014
Studies for major immigrant-receiving countries provide evidence on the comparative economic performance of immigrant classes (skill-, kinship-, and humanitarian-based). Developed countries are increasingly competing for high-skilled immigrants, who perform better in the labor market. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416488
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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?
Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …
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Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Bertoli, Simone - 2015
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010799
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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2021
Many countries are placing a greater emphasis on productive skills in the immigrant selection policies as a way of achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do better in some sense and provide greater economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318937
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Irish Immigrants : Evidence and Implications
Minns, Chris - 2005
The rise of immigration into Ireland has been accompanied by a debate on the potential objectives of immigration policy. This paper beings with a survey of international and historical evidence on the economics of immigration policy. To place Irish immigration in the international context, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064253
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Irish Immigrants : Evidence And Implications
Minns, Chris - 2005
The rise of immigration into Ireland has been accompanied by a debate on the potential objectives of immigration policy. This paper beings with a survey of international and historical evidence on the economics of immigration policy. To place Irish immigration in the international context, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064357
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....
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Should the US continue its family-friendly immigration policy?
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2014
their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on employment migrants need be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398751
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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...
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