Immigrant Occupational Attainment: Assimilation and Mobility over Time

Article Abstract:

Study results indicate that, in Canada, immigrants are underrepresented in less-skilled occupations and overrepresented in machining and professional occupations. This finding indicates that, under the country's point system, screening for more educated and skilled immigrants takes place. Results also show that Canadian immigrants are much more mobile than nonimmigrants and that there is a strong relationship between immigrant adjustment and the characteristics used by Canada to select immigrants.

International Affairs, Immigrants, Immigration & Emigration, Workers by Type, Political aspects, Emigration and immigration, Alien labor, Foreign labor

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The Highs and Lows of the Minimum Wage Effect: A Time-Series Cross-Section Study of the Canadian Law

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There were a variety of effects of minimum wage legislation in Canada between the years 1975 and 1993, including a 2.5% decrease in teenage employment when there is a 10% increase in the minimum wage. This is, however, driven by a low data frequency variation. The significance is less when there is a high data frequency variation, but there are implications for employment dynamics interpretation and reconciliation of minimum wage research.

Models, Employment, Economic policy, Teenagers, Youth, Minimum wage

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Learning in Sequential Wage Negotiations: Theory and Evidence

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Study results indicate that a posited model generates intuitively plausible reactions by union workers to other unions' wage settlements. The results suggest that workers' concerns with other workers' wages reflect not so much jealousy as a desire for information. Other implications of the model are discussed.

Wages, Collective Bargaining, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Wages and salaries

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