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 …