Immigrant Skill Selection and Utilization: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Canada, and the United States
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- Andrew Clarke & Mikal Skuterud, 2014. "Immigrant Skill Selection and Utilizatin: A Comparative Analysis of Australia, Canada, and the United States," Working Papers 1404, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics, revised Jul 2014.
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Keywords
Immigrant workers; labour market integration; immigrant selection policy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2014-11-28 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2014-11-28 (Economics of Human Migration)
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