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This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
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This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada...
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This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration...
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This paper examines the need for the parent and grandparent immigration program in Canada and provides critical observations on its objectives and operations and offers empirical estimates on its costs. And, as a contribution to the Government’s recently launched consultations on how to...
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immigrants of whom there were 398 thousand aged15 and over who reported employment income in the Census. An encouraging fact … 44 earning employment had earned university certificates or degrees compared to 31 per cent of non-visible minority 2nd …
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This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532162
We have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. Our results show that the evolution … of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high accuracy by a linear dependence on the logarithm of real … units. Statistically, the link between measured and predicted rate of employment is characterized by the coefficient of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220106
presented a Table showing the effect of substituting a marginal employment tax credit (METC)for the investment tax credit (ITC …) over the 1962 to 1971 period. Their METC was defined in terms of a rate times the increase in the wage bi11 over a base … defined to be the previous year's value. Any base, including the previous year's wage bill base, is of course merely a proxy …
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obtained for the USA is characterized by A1=4.0, A2=-0.03075, and t1=2 years. It provides a root mean square forecasting error …
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A two-component model for the evolution of real GDP per capita in the USA is presented and tested. The first component … between the growth rate of real GDP per capita and the number of 9-year-olds in the USA is tested for cointegration. For … cointegrating relation. Econometrically, the tests for cointegration show that the deviations of real economic growth in the USA …
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