Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic … costs and benefits derived from citizenship to rationalize the differential rates of citizenship ascension. Canadian … earnings evidence confirms the sizable economic benefits of citizenship. A decomposition analysis attributes this benefit to …

This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant?s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her … bias appears in Canadian immigrant citizenship decisions and varies by immigrant gender and source country groups. Our … citizenship -non-citizenship earnings differences. Next, we confirmed the standard results that the naturalization decision is …

immigration and citizenship regimes. In the first, immigrants stay permanently in the country and citizenship is obtained by … birthplace (jus soli). In the second regime immigration is also permanent but citizenship is passed only by bloodline (jus …

Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of … residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual citizenship has been allowed since 2001. During … explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in Sweden, controlling for a range of …

differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration … characteristics. A robust finding is that German citizenship is very valuable to female immigrants and the generally better educated … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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 …