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Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy : Shifting the focus from immigrants’ initial earnings to their propensity to invest in human capital

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2017

Immigrants who start with low earnings, such as family-based immigrants, experience higher earnings growth than immigrants who are recruited for specific jobs (employment-based immigrants). This occurs because family-based immigrants with lower initial earnings invest in human capital at higher...

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Immigration and innovation : evidence from Canadian cities

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2017

We examine the effect of changes in skilled-immigrant population shares in 98 Canadian cities between 1981 and 2006 on per capita patents. The Canadian case is of interest because its 'points system' for selecting immigrants is viewed as a model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates...

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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2017

1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …

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Can skilled immigration raise innovation? : evidence from Canadian cities

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - In: Journal of economic geography 20 (2020) 4, pp. 879-901

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Can skilled immigration policy raise innovation? : evidence from the Canadian "points system"

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2018

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Selective immigration, occupational licensing, and labour market outcomes of foreign-trained migrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital. …

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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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Skilled immigration to fill talent gaps : a comparison of the immigration policies of the United States, Canada, and Australia

Chand, Masud; Tung, Rosalie Lam - In: Journal of International Business Policy : JIBP 2 (2019) 4, pp. 333-355

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Separate but not equal : toward a nomological net for migrants and migrant entrepreneurship

Christensen, Lisa Jones; Newman, Arielle Badger; … - In: Journal of International Business Policy : JIBP 3 (2020) 1, pp. 1-22

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