This dissertation contributes to a strand of literature on the economic integration of immigrants in Canada's labour market. My first essay examines the economic return to human capital acquired abroad using an improved identification strategy of foreign education and work experience. My second essay examines whether education-job mismatches, on the part of immigrants, possibly explain their poor labour market outcomes. My final essay provides new evidence on the economic assimilation of U.K. immigrants in Canada over the late 19th and early-20th-century.In my first essay I exploit the enhanced details on education attainment provided in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) to decompose aggregate human capital variables into more...
The literature has reported that immigrants’ foreign credentials have been undervalued in Canada. Ho...
In the first essay, I study job-education mismatch and estimate its impact on the earnings of recent...
Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada for 2001-2005 the effects of matching pre-immi...
The lack of foreign credential recognition by Canadian employers and professional associations is of...
This dissertation examines immigrants (to Canada) assimilation problems from a perspective of imperf...
The following thesis consists of three essays. Each one is a study of the issues of the selection ef...
The three chapters of my dissertation examine immigrant assimilation in the Canadian labour market. ...
The employment success of immigrants to Canada has been a primary focus of sociological research on ...
This paper uses pooled 1971, 1981, and 1986 Canadian census data to evaluate the extent to which (1)...
This dissertation analyzes different dimensions of the impacts of immigration from a host country pe...
grantor: University of TorontoIn Chapter I, I introduce the reader to immigration in Cana...
Immigration, the subject of repeated policy debates throughout the last two decades, has once again ...
In this dissertation, I study the impact of immigration on the Canadian economy as well as the econo...
Published versionUsing the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigra...
Immigrants’ social and economic integration in Canada are explored using the 2001 census, the Longit...
The literature has reported that immigrants’ foreign credentials have been undervalued in Canada. Ho...
In the first essay, I study job-education mismatch and estimate its impact on the earnings of recent...
Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada for 2001-2005 the effects of matching pre-immi...
The lack of foreign credential recognition by Canadian employers and professional associations is of...
This dissertation examines immigrants (to Canada) assimilation problems from a perspective of imperf...
The following thesis consists of three essays. Each one is a study of the issues of the selection ef...
The three chapters of my dissertation examine immigrant assimilation in the Canadian labour market. ...
The employment success of immigrants to Canada has been a primary focus of sociological research on ...
This paper uses pooled 1971, 1981, and 1986 Canadian census data to evaluate the extent to which (1)...
This dissertation analyzes different dimensions of the impacts of immigration from a host country pe...
grantor: University of TorontoIn Chapter I, I introduce the reader to immigration in Cana...
Immigration, the subject of repeated policy debates throughout the last two decades, has once again ...
In this dissertation, I study the impact of immigration on the Canadian economy as well as the econo...
Published versionUsing the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigra...
Immigrants’ social and economic integration in Canada are explored using the 2001 census, the Longit...
The literature has reported that immigrants’ foreign credentials have been undervalued in Canada. Ho...
In the first essay, I study job-education mismatch and estimate its impact on the earnings of recent...
Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada for 2001-2005 the effects of matching pre-immi...