A growing literature has found a positive association between human capital and long-run employment growth across cities. These studies have increased interest in understanding the location choices of university degree-holders, a group often used as a proxy measure of human capital. Based on...

This paper examines the process by which migrants experience gains in earnings subsequent to migration and, in particular, the advantage that migrants obtain from moving to large, dynamic metropolitan labour markets, using Toronto as a benchmark. There are two potentially distinct patterns to...

La presente etude porte sur le processus amenant les migrants a realiser des gains salariaux a la suite de leur migration; l'examen porte plus particulierement sur l'avantage associe a la migration vers des marches du travail metropolitains dynamiques et de grande taille, Toronto servant a cet...

Une litterature de plus en plus abondante fait etat d'une association positive entre le capital humain et la croissance de long terme de l'emploi dans les villes. Ces etudes ont suscite le desir de comprendre ce qui influence les titulaires d'un diplome universitaire, groupe souvent utilise...

University degree holders in large cities are more prevalent and are growing at a more rapid pace than in smaller cities and rural areas. This relatively high rate of growth stems from net migratory flows and/or higher rates of degree attainment in cities. Using data from the 1996 and 2001...

Les diplomes universitaires sont plus nombreux et leur nombre croit plus rapidement dans les grandes villes que dans les petites villes et les regions rurales. Ce taux de croissance relativement eleve tient aux flux migratoires nets et(ou) aux taux plus eleves d'obtention d'un diplome. En...

L'essor economique que connait recemment la province canadienne de l'Alberta offre une occasion ideale de realiser une experience dans des conditions naturelles par l'examen des reactions des immigrants a une forte demande de main-d'oeuvre a l'exterieur des grands centres metropolitains. Le...

Nous analysons la mobilite intergenerationnelle du niveau de scolarite des hommes et des femmes canadiens nes d'immigrants. Nous tracons un portrait detaille des Canadiens et nous fournissons des estimations du degre de mobilite intergenerationnelle chez les enfants d'immigrants. La persistance...

The recent economic boom in the Canadian province of Alberta provides an ideal "natural experiment" to examine immigrants' responses to a strong labour demand outside major metropolitan centres. The key finding of our study, which is based on a unique dataset that combines administrative and...

We analyse the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of intergenerational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the...