The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also...

The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also...

The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also...

Two distinct issues are addressed. First, we explore earnings and employment outcome differences across categories of the immigrant selection system and directly link the points system to these outcomes, which is relatively rare in Canadian research. Second, the appropriateness of alternative...

Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In addition to basic demographics, relevant economic theories and institutional...