In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...

Au Canada, au cours des annees 1990 et des annees 2000, la selection des immigrants economiques s?est appuyee principalement sur le modele d?immigration axe sur le capital humain. Ce modele a pour premisse que selectionner des immigrants dont le niveau de capital humain est eleve est...

Le present document passe en revue les recherches recentes sur les determinants du niveau de scolarite atteint par les enfants d'immigrants nes au Canada et aux Etats-Unis, appeles egalement la deuxieme generation. Il porte plus particulierement sur l'ecart sur le plan du niveau de scolarite...

This paper reviews the recent research on the determinants of the educational attainment among the children of immigrants born in Canada and the United States, also known as the second generation. The focus is on the gap in educational attainment between the second and third-and-higher...

Le present document passe en revue les recherches recentes sur les determinants des resultats sur le marche du travail des enfants d'immigrants au Canada et aux Etats-Unis. De nouvelles recherches sur les resultats obtenus au Canada y sont aussi presentees. Globalement, et en l'absence de...

This paper reviews recent research on the determinants of the labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in Canada and in the U.S. New research on outcomes in Canada is also presented. In the aggregate, and with no controls, the labour market outcomes of the second generation-the...

Le travail autonome est percu comme un moyen important, pour de nombreux immigrants, d'entrer sur le marche du travail. Toutefois, on sait peu de choses au sujet du travail autonome des enfants d'immigrants. A partir des donnees des recensements de la population du Canada de 1981 et 2006 et au...

Immigrants in major industrialized countries are disproportionately represented in self-employment as compared to the domestic-born. Using a generational cohort method and data from the 20% sample file of the 1981 Canadian Census and the 20% sample file of the 2006 Canadian Census, this study...

Self-employment has been regarded as an important pathway for many immigrants to engage in the labour market. However, little is known about self-employment among the children of immigrants. Using the 1981 and 2006 Canadian censuses of population and a generational cohort method of analysis,...

Les immigrants des grands pays industrialises sont representes de facon disproportionnee au chapitre du travail autonome par rapport aux personnes nees au pays. A partir d'une methode de cohorte generationnelle et a l'aide des donnees-echantillon (20 %) des fichiers maitres des recensements du...