Summary
This collection of essays extends and updates our understanding of selected economic and closely related social factors regarding immigration in Canada. It looks at topics such as temporary foreign workers, employment, self-employment, education and earnings trajectories.
Contents
1. Introduction to current Canadian issues in the economics of immigration / Ted McDonald and others -- 2. A comprehensive look at the employment experience of recent immigrants during their first four years in Canada / Li Xue -- 3. An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market / Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miler -- 4. Entry earnings of immigrant men in Canada: the roles of labour market entry effects and returns to foreign experience / David A. Green and Christopher Worswick -- 5. Visible minority status, immigrant status, gender and earnings in Canada: a cohort analysis / Ted McDonald and Christopher Worswick -- 6. Immigration policy and the self-employment experience of immigrants to Canada / Herbert J. Schuetze --
7. How far does the points system stretch? The spouses of skilled worker principal applicants / Arthur Sweetman and Casey Warman -- 8. The portability of human capital of male temporary foreign workers: you can bring it with you / Casey Warman -- 9. Assimilation or stratification? The sources of early differentiation of immigrant ethno-racial groups in the Canadian housing market / Michael Haan -- 10. Immigrant children in elementary school: an international perspective / Arthur Sweetman -- 11. Differences in fertility decisions of Canadian immigrant households / Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer -- 12. Health status and social capital of recent immigrants in Canada: evidence from the longitudinal survey of immigrants to Canada / Jun Zhao, Li Xue and Tara Gilkinson.