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Structural Influences on Participation Rates: A Canada-U.S. Comparison

Ip, Irene; King, Sheryl; Verdier, Geneviève - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in the United States actually rose slightly (up 0.5 percentage points between 1989 and 1997). This US experience provides a useful benchmark for the analysis of the Canadian...

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Does a lower (higher) labour force participation rate imply greater (lower) income tax evasion? : an exploratory empirical inquiry for the U.S.

Cebula, Richard J. - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 5, pp. 429-432

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Occupational licensing and skills mismatches among immigrants and natives in the United States

Tani, Massimiliano - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 3, pp. 673-700

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Assimilation and Americanisation in the Progressive Era : Price, Waterhouse & Company in the US, 1890 - 1914

Lee, Thomas A. - In: Accounting history : journal of the Accounting History … 19 (2014) 1/2, pp. 13-30

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On estimating the effects of immigrant legalization : do US agricultural workers really benefit?

Sampaio, Breno; Sampaio, Gustavo Ramos; Sampaio, Yony - In: American journal of agricultural economics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 932-948

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants' religiosity ; a comparative study of Europe and the United States

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...

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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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Should the US continue its family-friendly immigration policy?

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2014

accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …

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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …

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Immigration policy and less-skilled workers in the United States : reflections on future directions for reform

Holzer, Harry J. - 2011

This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …

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