Language acquisition, unemployment and depressive disorder among Southeast Asian refugees: a 10-year study

M Beiser, F Hou - Social science & medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
The current study examines the risk-inducing effects of unemployment and the protective
effects of language facility on the mental health of Southeast Asian refugees resettling in …

Deconstructing Canada's discourse of immigrant integration

PS Li - Journal of International Migration and Integration …, 2003 - Springer
The term “integration” is commonly used in Canada's immigration discourse to refer to the
desirable way by which newcomers should become members of the receiving society. Policy …

[图书][B] The deteriorating economic welfare of immigrants and possible causes

WG Picot, A Sweetman - 2004 - epe.lac-bac.gc.ca
This paper reviews the increase in the earnings gap between immigrants and Canadian-
born over the past two decades, and the current explanations of this labour market …

[图书][B] The rise in low-income rates among immigrants in Canada

WG Picot, F Hou - 2003 - academia.edu
This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number
of questions:(1) have low-income rates increased among successive cohorts of entering …

Identifying earnings assimilation of immigrants under changing macroeconomic conditions

E Barth, B Bratsberg, O Raaum - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Failure to account for differences between immigrants and natives in their responsiveness to
changes in macroeconomic conditions may bias estimates of assimilation effects on …

The deteriorating economic welfare of Canadian immigrants

G Picot - Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2004 - JSTOR
Both the low-income and the earnings gap between immigrants and the Canadian born are
observed to have increased, particularly for recent immigrants. While the incidence of low …

The earnings of immigrant men in Canada: Job tenure, cohort, and macroeconomic conditions

JT McDonald, C Worswick - ILR Review, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning 1981–92, the authors compare the earnings
of immigrant and native-born men in Canada. Apparently, recent immigrant cohorts have …

Ethnic enclaves and immigrant earnings growth

C Warman - … Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d' …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of living in an ethnic enclave on earnings growth of immigrants in Canada is
examined using the 1981–2001 Censuses. Consistent with US findings, enclaves are found …

Assimilation via Prices or Quantities?: Sources of Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States

H Antecol, P Kuhn, SJ Trejo - Journal of human Resources, 2006 - jhr.uwpress.org
Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 census data from Australia, Canada, and the United States, we
estimate the effects of time in the destination country on male immigrants' wages …

Local unemployment and the relative wages of immigrants: Evidence from the current population surveys

B Bratsberg, E Barth, O Raaum - The Review of Economics and …, 2006 - direct.mit.edu
We provide evidence on wage profiles of immigrants using Current Population Survey data
from 1979 to 2003, taking into account that changes in labor market conditions impact …