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The economics of language : an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the …

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Heterogeneous treatment and self-selection in a wage subsidy experiment

Brouillette, Dany (contributor); Lacroix, Guy (contributor) - 2008

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008

, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …

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Assessing the impact of a wage subsidy for single parents on social assistance in Canada

Lacroix, Guy - 2009

In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...

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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …

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What affects international migration of European science and engineering graduates?

Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier; Sauermann, Jan - 2009

hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …

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The determinants of education-job match among Canadian university graduates

Boudarbat, Brahim; Chernoff, Victor - 2009

significant effect on match. -- Education-job match ; university graduates ; Canada ; Follow-up of Graduates Survey …

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First and second generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes : a comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman (contributor); … - 2006

to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source … countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the … educational attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education …

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Immigrant selection and short-term labour market outcomes by visa category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010

This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by family preferences. This positive selection is achieved by directly selecting higher skilled...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … ; taxation ; Australia ; Canada ; New Zealand ; United Kingdom ; United States …

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