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Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …
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skill disadvantage of foreign-born women in the United States (relative to foreign-born women in Australia and Canada … relationships. For this reason, we might expect that the stronger emphasis on skill-based admissions in Australia and Canada …
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verify this result for recent immigrants to Canada for whom a strong network is captured by the presence of a 'close tie …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Canada). However, since wages in Quebec are lower than elsewhere, immigrants in Quebec earn less in absolute terms than those …
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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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Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new …
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use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using …, cognitive abilities seem to be more important in determining youths' educational attainment in the U.S. than in Canada. However … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit …
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Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a …
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on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early … earnings inequality in Canada and contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives. In the decade after …
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