Overview
- First comprehensive analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller regions
- Identifies best practices for immigrant attraction and retention in smaller regions of Canada that are also relevant for other countries
- Original research using various databases for Atlantic Canada not available in public domain
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Broader geographic distribution of immigrants
- Citizenship and Immigration Canada
- Demographic challenges
- Economic integration of immigrants
- Education levels
- Immigrant regionalization
- Immigration policies
- Inflows of international students
- Labour market earnings
- Population ageing
- Rural-urban labour force division
- Rural-urban settlement patterns
- Skill shortages
- Skilled and business immigrants
- Statistics Canada
- Unemployment rates
- Youth out migration
About this book
This book is the first to present a detailed analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller areas of their host nations. It uses Atlantic Canada as a case in point and uses unpublished data based on several databases of Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration, Canada. It identifies best policy practices that can also be used in other countries to address demographic challenges similar to those facing Canada, for example population ageing and youth out-migration from smaller regions to larger regions, through immigration. Economic integration of immigrants in Atlantic Canada is faster and better than it is nationally. An overarching result is that an analysis of regional data can lead to very different policy conclusions than the analysis of national data, which means that it can be risky to devise immigration policy based only on national data. A clear message is that economic benefits from immigration can be enhanced by facilitating a broader geographic distribution of immigrants, rather than maintaining their concentration in a few larger urban regions.  A must read for immigration and population policy makers, immigrant settlement agencies and academic researchers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations
Book Subtitle: Some Evidence from Atlantic Canada
Authors: Syed Ather Hussain Akbari
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6244-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6243-5Published: 21 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6244-2Published: 20 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-3215
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 95
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Population Economics, Migration, Demography, Labor Economics