temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on … emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant …-receiving countries such as Canada, the US, and Australia are critically evaluated. The expanded use of skilled temporary foreign workers …

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 …

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 …

This Article questions the experimental value of state immigration laws. Analyzing the Supreme Court’s major decisions … in this area, including Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, the Article explains why state immigration laws fail to satisfy … problems. Unfortunately, state immigration laws do not meet these criteria because states operate in a system of “forced …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

Using a representative survey of 801 employers across Atlantic Canada, we empirically test various factors associated … with employer hiring attitudes towards international migrants. Our results indicate that employers who hired international …

files of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) and the Labour Force Survey (2006-2013). We find that TFWs in Canada work longer …

Canada. Particular attention is given to the Canadian program of TFWs that has intensified enormously over the last 30 years … decrease net interprovincial migrants within the year by about 50, a number substantially higher than is present in existing … suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …

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. …