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  1. Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited: Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada in 2014

    We estimated in our earlier papers that because of the low average incomes of recent immigrants, the low taxes they pay and the government services they absorb, the fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers was over $6,000 per capita in fiscal year 2005/06, and ...

  2. Let the market determine Canada's immigration level

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail Since the early 1980s, Canada’s immigration selection policies have focussed on the principal applicant’s highest educational achievements and language skills, explicitly to ensure that immigrants would be suitable for ...

  3. Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada: Responding to Critics and a Revised Estimate

    This paper responds to the criticism by Mohsen Javdani and Krishna Pendakur of our estimate of the net fiscal transfer to recent immigrants. Specifically, Javdani and Pendakur question our estimate that in fiscal year 2005/06 the average fiscal burden ...