Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …

Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

Canada, the US, and most Western countries are looking to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics …) immigrants to boost innovation and economic growth. Canada in particular has welcomed many STEM immigrants over the past quarter … the innovation activity of highly educated immigrants, which highlights the likely role of immigration policy in …

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a … new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk …