most preferred host countries for immigration. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find … that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the 2015 … found among migrants who are female, highly educated, proficient in the host language, self-employed and working in …

model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …

the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches … case of IMGs migrating to the US and Canada since the 1960s and evaluate the empirical predictions from the model based on … an analysis of the occupational outcomes of IMGs in Canada (where a point system has been in place) and in the US (where …

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … occupations in Canada. We supplement the analysis using Census estimates for the same cohort with source country occupational … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely …

impacts on public opinion are important enough to influence policy is unclear. Many scholars argue that Canada is an exception … dramatic growth in the ethnic and cultural diversity of Canada's immigrant inflows in recent decades, but the extent of this … experienced little change in the heterogeneity of their populations. We examine impacts of immigration on welfare benefit rates of …

earnings across immigration classes and categories of Canadians at birth. Adult immigrants, including those assessed by the …