An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries

A Edo, L Ragot, H Rapoport… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The share of the foreign‐born population in member countries of the OECD is increasing,
and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those …

Innovation in immigrant-owned firms

Y Ostrovsky, G Picot - Small Business Economics, 2021 - Springer
We use data from a nationally representative survey of Canadian firms in 2011, 2014 and
2017 and ask whether immigrant-owned small-and medium-sized firms were more likely …

Information and communication technology talent: the Skills We Need—framing the Issues

R Finnie, RE Mueller, A Sweetman - Canadian public policy, 2018 - utpjournals.press
This article provides a conceptual framework for discussing information and communication
technology (ICT) skills shortages in a context in which having a sufficient supply of skilled …

Expanding engineering practices: immigrant accounts of innovation from a practice-based perspective

H Shan - Studies in Continuing Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Research shows a positive association between skilled migration and innovation. Related
literature however is largely limited to the use of proxies such as patents, and publications …

Replication of “How much does immigration boost innovation?”

TJ Wright - Economic Inquiry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying the causal impact of immigration on outcomes commonly involves using a “shift‐
share” or Bartik instrument, exploiting country‐specific immigration inflows (shifts) and …

'Moving On'—investigating inventors' ethnic origins using supervised learning

M Niggli - Journal of Economic Geography, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Patent data provides rich information about technical inventions, but does not disclose the
ethnic origin of inventors. In this article, I use supervised learning techniques to infer this …

The Relative Performance of International Students and Their Academic Program Choices

ZJ Chen - 2021 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition
revenues and new immigrants. In Chapter 1, we examine the relative course grades of …