The unemployment insurance compensation. Usage of Canada's immigrants in selected provinces, 1981-1988 |
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Authors: | Siklos P L Marr W |
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Institution: | Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper explores the relationship between province of residence and the use of unemployment insurance (UI) among immigrants who landed in Canada during the period 1981-88. Use of a new data set, the Longitudinal Immigration Data Base, overcomes the restriction that other data sets are cross-sectional only in nature or do not identify birthplace. Our principal conclusion is that more generous UI benefits and poorer economic conditions than the Canadian average have a positive impact on the fraction of immigrants who receive UI. In addition, the province of residence has a separate effect on the likelihood of claiming UI, perhaps due to mobility costs. Because national immigration policies have a differential impact across provinces, it is understandable that provincial policy makers wish to have greater influence over federal immigration policies. |
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