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Income Growth of New Immigrants in Canada : Evidence from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics
Banerjee, Rupa - 2010
The present study examines the income growth of newly arrived immigrants in Canada using growth curve modeling of …-up. This racial difference in recent immigrants' income growth is found to be caused by the fact that visible minority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144881
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Economic Migration and Happiness : Comparing Immigrants’ and Natives’ Happiness Gains from Income
Bartram, David - 2012
Research on happiness casts doubt on the notion that increases in income generally bring greater happiness. This … as a means of increasing one’s income might be no more effective in raising happiness than other means of increasing one …’s income. This implication is counterintuitive: it suggests that migrants are mistaken in believing that economic migration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196105
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Seeking success in Canada and the United States : the determinants of labour market outcomes among the children of immigrants
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909803
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Seeking Success in Canada and the United States : The Determinants of Labour Market Outcomes Among the Children of Immigrants
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng - 2012
This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and in the U.S. New research on labour market outcomes in Canada is also presented. In the aggregate, and with no controls, the labour market outcomes of the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172076
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns Among Migrants to Canada
Adserà, Alícia - 2013
This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using the 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census of Population for the years 1991 through 2006. We focus on those migrating as children, to assess their process of assimilation in terms of fertility. Our analysis does not show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093766
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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013
This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different times. We find that women from countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738164
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An empirical study on the migration among young skilled and creative people
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741
In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an increasing number of young people, most of them being gifted, very talented students and high-skilled workforce, with multiple competences . These young people are pro-active and...
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Chapter 7. Immigrants and Demography : Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 315-374). 2015
We discuss some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examine the evidence collected from the main studies in the area. With regard to marriage we focus on the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025476
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Fertility intentions under the shock conditions : the case of Russian Exodus
Kozlov, Vladimir; Sokolova, Ekaterina; Veselovskaya, Olga; … - 2023
subjective income and willingness to stay in the host country. Especially it is obvious for the countries beyond the EU (mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014440940
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003885756