Integrating Immigrants in Canada: Addressing Skills Diversity

Birrell, Bob; McIsaac, Elizabeth

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“… Sources: 2006 point system, Birrell and McIsaac (, Table 2.1); 1992 point system, Green and Green (, Table ). …”

Section: Immigration Policy and Socioeconomic Environment In Canada Amentioning

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“… Notes: In 2006, 25 points were allocated to those with masters degree or PhD and 20–22 points to those with trade qualifications. Persons with a bachelor degree received 20 points, those with a 1‐year diploma, 15 points, and those who had completed high school, 5 points (Birrell and McIsaac ). …”

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Recent Immigration to Canada and the United States: A Mixed Tale of Relative Selection

Kaushal

2015

International Migration Review

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Using large-scale census data and adjusting for sending-country fixed effect to account for changing composition of immigrants, we study relative immigrant selection to Canada and the U.S. during 1990–2006, a period characterized by diverging immigration policies in the two countries. Results show a gradual change in selection patterns in educational attainment and host country language proficiency in favor of Canada as its post-1990 immigration policy allocated more points to the human capital of new entrants. Specifically, in 1990, new immigrants in Canada were less likely to have a B.A. degree than those in the U.S.; they were also less likely to have a high-school or lower education. By 2006, Canada surpassed the U.S. in drawing highly-educated immigrants, while continuing to attract fewer low-educated immigrants. Canada also improved its edge over the U.S. in terms of host-country language proficiency of new immigrants. Entry-level earnings, however, do not reflect the same trend: recent immigrants to Canada have experienced a wage disadvantage compared to recent immigrants to the U.S., as well as Canadian natives. One plausible explanation is that, while the Canadian points system has successfully attracted more educated immigrants, it may not be effective in capturing productivity-related traits that are not easily measurable.

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“… Sources: 2006 point system, Birrell and McIsaac (, Table 2.1); 1992 point system, Green and Green (, Table ). …”

Section: Immigration Policy and Socioeconomic Environment In Canada Amentioning

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Recent Immigration to Canada and the United States: A Mixed Tale of Relative Selection

Kaushal

2015

International Migration Review

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Immigrant Skill Utilization: Trends and Policy Issues

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Elrick

2013

Int. Migration & Integration

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Ideas and Collaborative Governance

Bradford

2016

Urban Affairs Review

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In recent years, interest has grown in collaboration in public policy. Responding to the complex issues now playing out in cities, scholars are focusing on localized governance relations that blur boundaries between public, private, and community sectors. This article introduces discursive localism as a framework to understand better collaborative urban governance. It argues that ideas play a pivotal role in motivating collective action, channeling policy resources, and shaping governance relations. Although recent urban-focused accounts of collective action suggest a role for ideas, systematic attention to their normative-philosophical and cognitive-programmatic dimensions reveals how different policy discourses frame incentives and institutions for collaboration. Applying discursive localism to Toronto, Canada, the article describes change processes across three complex policy fields. Governance arrangements are argued to flow from the operative policy discourses, especially whether their normative and cognitive dimensions are integrated, dissociated, or fragmented.

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Integrating Immigrants in Canada: Addressing Skills Diversity

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Recent Immigration to Canada and the United States: A Mixed Tale of Relative Selection

Recent Immigration to Canada and the United States: A Mixed Tale of Relative Selection

Immigrant Skill Utilization: Trends and Policy Issues

Ideas and Collaborative Governance

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