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The short-term labour market outcomes of blended visa office-referred refugees

open access: yesEconomic and Social Reports
In 2013, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada introduced a new refugee resettlement category called the Blended Visa Office-Referred Program. This admission stream combined the core principles of IRCC’s Government-Assisted Refugees program and ...
Yasmin Gure, Feng Hou
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Institutions and individual strategies: how did job seekers respond to the changing employment environment in urban China?

open access: yesThe Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2017
By using qualitative data collected in three representative Chinese cities and quantitative data from a countrywide survey, in this study, we synthesized the conventionally competing arguments from the state-centred and market-centred approaches.
Jing Shen, Wei Xu
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Why have immigrant entry earnings fluctuated widely in recent years? The role of immigration selection and labour-market conditions

open access: yesEconomic and Social Reports
In recent years, the entry earnings of newly admitted immigrants to Canada have exhibited substantial year-to-year fluctuations. Notably, first-year earnings increased by 21% for the 2020 admission cohort relative to the previous cohort and by 11% for ...
Feng Hou, Nicolas Bastien
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O Efeito diploma no mercado de trabalho não qualificado: Uma aplicação da função de Mincer para o Brasil

open access: yesRevista de Economia Mackenzie, 2022
In 2001, 2004, 2007, 2011, and 2015, Brazil provided an expansion in the offer of places for higher education through the programs Student Financing Fund (Fundo de Financiamento Estudantil [Fies]), University for All Program (Progra-ma Universidade ...
Jayane Freires Ferreira   +3 more
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Presentation: Did the Housing Price Bubble Clobber Local Labor Market Job and Worker Flows When It Burst? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We integrate local labor market data on worker flows, job flows, employment levels, and earnings with MSA-level data on housing prices and local area unemployment, to study the local labor market dynamics associated with the U.S.
Abowd, John M., Vilhuber, Lars
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Retention and recruitment of young skilled minority official language speakers in Canadian provinces

open access: yesEconomic and Social Reports
Retaining and recruiting young skilled workers are important for any community, but perhaps even more so for communities where the main language spoken is a minority official language.
Marc Frenette
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The Interplay between Education, Skills, and Job Quality

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2019
Compared to general education, vocational education and training (VET) has been shown to facilitate young people’s integration into the labour market.
Alexandra Wicht   +3 more
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Active presence of immigrants in Canada: Recent trends in tax filing and employment incidence

open access: yesEconomic and Social Reports
The impact of immigration on the destination country is contingent not only on the number of immigrants admitted but also on how many of them choose to stay and actively engage in the labour market.
Feng Hou
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The skills required for transition to university and study in biological sciences: A student perspective

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioscience students were asked for their opinions on the value and teaching of skills. 204 responded that teamwork, time management and study skills are necessary to reach University, that scientific writing, research, laboratory and presentation skills are taught effectively during their studies, while other skills are gained inherently through study ...
Janella Borrell, Susan Crennell
wiley   +1 more source

Economic outcomes of provincial nominees: Differences between Express Entry and non-Express Entry

open access: yesEconomic and Social Reports
The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) has two primary aims: (1) to better distribute economic immigrants across the country and (2) to address specific economic needs of the provinces and territories.
Max Stick, Feng Hou, Garnett Picot
doaj   +1 more source

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