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An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of the Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants Using the 2006 Census PUMF and Some Observations on Their Implications for Immigration Policy
... of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File ...that immigrants from less developed countries are doing ...
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Mental health service use by recent immigrants from different world regions and by non immigrants in Ontario, Canada: a cross sectional study
... examined immigrants from different source ...by immigrants from Turkey, Morocco, and Surinam than by native born Dutch as well as variation across the three source country immi- grant groups ...by ...
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Understanding Immigrant Housing Integration in Canada — The Role of Transnational Engagements
... among immigrants have declined in all three of Canada’s gateway cities of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver over the past couple of decades regardless of increasing immigrant populations due to their position as ...
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... of recent immigrants (0-9 years of residence) self-rated their mental health as fair-poor compared to 7% of the Canadian-born ...longer-term immigrants (10+ years in Canada) had a similar ...
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Variation in mode of physical activity by ethnicity and time since immigration: a cross-sectional analysis
... among immigrants in Canada to the extent that the longer one lives in the country, the more likely they are to report higher levels of ...Hispanic immigrants has been docu- mented ...in Canada ...
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Main Challenges Faced by Small Businesses Owned by Recent Immigrants
... From the interview that followed the completion of the survey, the sample members identified an issue which was not covered in the questionnaire but emerged as one of the main challenges they encounter regularly as they ...
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Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited: Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada in 2014
... by recent immigrants through provisions of the welfare state can be calculated by adding the lower taxes paid by recent immigrants to the higher spending benefits, that is, the $4,916 in lower ...
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An analysis of the poor performance of recent immigrants and observations on immigration policy
... The GDP per capita variable in the immigrants Place of Birth discussed above was a possible explanatory variable that could be used in the regressions. A rationale for this impact would be the more relevant work ...
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A MODEL OF PERCEIVED UNDEREMPLOYMENT AMONG IMMIGRANTS IN CANADA
... to Canada have been economic immigrants, selected for their skills and ability to contribute to Canada’s economy (Citizenship & Immigration Canada, 2008; ...of immigrants’ skills in the ...
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Bicultural identity orientation of immigrants to Canada
... 1.5 immigrants, those who settled in Canada before adulthood and hence have had a good deal of Canadian ...less recent immigrants, more nuanced generations of immigration, and a greater ...
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Fiscal transfers to immigrants in Canada: responding to critics and a revised estimate
... of recent immigrants certainly does not provide any grounds for optimism that the offspring of recent immigrants are going to be able to earn enough to compensate current and future ...
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The impact of immigration on Canada’s labour market
... of recent immigrants in 2006 (defined in the census as those arriving between 2001 and 2006) was substantially lower than for the Canadian-born, particularly among women (table ...for recent ...
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Feeding styles and evening family meals among recent immigrants
... Baseline self-reported socio-demographic information and measured heights and weights were collected for both mother and child (age range: 3 – 12 years) among 387 mother-child dyads enrolled in Live Well, a ...
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Have the Olympic Games become more migratory? A comparative historical perspective
... In total, the share of athletes from North America, Oceania and South America has grown quite significantly. New countries of emigration have emerged, like Cuba, Jamaica, China and Brazil. Between 2004 and 2012, 20 ...
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Devolved immigration policy : will it work in Scotland?
... In February 2005, the then Home Secretary Charles Clarke outlined a “five year plan” aimed at changing fundamentally the way immigration to the United Kingdom is managed. Central to this plan is the adoption of a ...
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Sense of belonging to local community in small-to-medium sized Canadian urban areas: a comparison of immigrant and Canadian-born residents
... potential immigrants and the demands of the labour market, particularly in small-to-medium sized urban areas given the importance of full-time employment to immigrants’ ...across Canada, the federal ...
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Is the lower return to immigrants’ foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?
... of immigrants (both Canadian- and foreign- educated) relative to those of native-born ...of immigrants ’ occupational matching, we can isolate the returns to education in estimation such that they reflect ...
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The cost of immigrants’ occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada
... educated immigrants as much as it does for the native born who are working in the least matching occupations (NRI = ...foreign-educated immigrants work in those least matching occupations, occupational ...
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An ethnographic investigation of the maternity healthcare experience of immigrants in rural and urban Alberta, Canada
... a recent research study that looked for ways to optimize maternity care for newcomer women, immigrant Sudan- ese women frequently requested pizza and Kentucky Fried Chicken for hospitality food during the focus ...
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Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Acculturative Stress Index
... financial mobility (e.g., “The job experience I had in Korea is not recognized in Canada” and “I have few opportunities to earn more income”) and changes in family relations (e.g., “I feel that my relationship ...
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