The unemployment insurance compensation experience of immigrants in Canada, 1980-1988

Siklos, Pierre L.; Marr, William L.

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“…Canadian studies in this area include Baker and Benjamin (, ), Crossley et al . (), DeSilva (), Langlois and Dougherty (), Lui‐Gurr (), Marr and Siklos (, ), Siklos and Marr (, ), and Ostrovsky (). More details on these studies and evidence for other countries are discussed in Dungan et al .…”

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Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro Model

Dungan

Fang

Gunderson

2012

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro Model

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Fang

Gunderson

2012

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…The longer foreign-born women were in Canada, the more likely they were to participate. Siklos and Marr (1998) used the IMDB for aggregate Canadian data to examine claims on unemployment insurance by immigrants who landed in Canada between 1980 and1987. On average, about 21 per cent of the foreign-born claim UI receipts each year, with little difference between males and females. This compares with about 16 per cent of all tax filers who claimed unemployment insurance benefits in 1988, and with approximately 24 per cent of tax filers aged 20 to 34 who received unemployment benefits in that year.…”

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“…5 Also, while each immigration cohort landed in a specific year in a particular province, the claims rates used in this study correspond to where a particular member of an immigration cohort resided in each specific tax year. Further details about the IMDB are reported in Siklos and Marr (1998) and IMDB Compendium 1980-1988(1995.…”

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“…It is interesting to compare the proportion of immigrant UI claims with data for all tax returns published by Revenue Canada. These data include immigrant tax filers, but given that immigrants represented only 15.6 per cent of the Canadian population in 1986 (Siklos and Marr, 1998), the national taxation data are roughly comparable to the IMDB. Unfortunately, there are no national or provincial taxation data for the Canadian-born alone.…”

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“…Related to this issue is the use made by foreign-born persons of transfer programmes, including unemployment insurance (UI). Whether or not foreignborn persons make more use of UI than the Canadian-born, or the general population, has also been the subject of considerable interest and controversy (e.g., see Siklos and Marr, 1998, for recent Canadian evidence). While studies of immigrants' use of unemployment insurance have been made at the aggregate, Canada-wide level (Baker and Benjamin, 1995a and b;Siklos and Marr, 1998), in recent years demands have been made by the provinces for more autonomy, particularly in areas such as immigration that were effectively the exclusive preserve of the Federal government.…”

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The Unemployment Insurance Compensation Usage of Canada’s Immigrants in Selected Provinces, 1981–1988

Siklos

Marr

1998

International Migration

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This paper explores the relationship between province of residence and the use of unemployment insurance (UI) among immigrants who landed in Canada during the period 1981-88.Use of a new data set, the Longitudinal Immigration Data Base, overcomes the restriction that other data sets are cross-sectional only in nature or do not identify birthplace.Our principal conclusion is that more generous UI benefits and poorer economic conditions than the Canadian average have a positive impact on the fraction of immigrants who receive UI. In addition, the province of residence has a separate effect on the likelihood of claiming UI, perhaps due to mobility costs.Because national immigration policies have a differential impact across provinces, it is understandable that provincial policy makers wish to have greater influence over federal immigration policies.

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Optimum immigration policies based on Linear Quadratic Theory

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Charalambous

2010

2010 4th International Symposium on Communications, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP)

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The unemployment insurance compensation experience of immigrants in Canada, 1980-1988

Cited by 12 publications

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Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro Model

Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro Model

The Unemployment Insurance Compensation Usage of Canada’s Immigrants in Selected Provinces, 1981–1988

Optimum immigration policies based on Linear Quadratic Theory

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