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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. 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 ...

3. Immigration and the Canadian Welfare State 2011

   This publication provides an estimate of the fiscal burden created by recent immigration into Canada and proposes reforms to existing immigrant selection policies to eliminate the burden. It uses a 2006 Census database to estimate the average incomes and ...

4. Immigration and the Welfare State in Canada: Growing Conflicts, Constructive Solutions

   This paper recommends a continuation of the efforts to achieve a better use of the high skill levels of the recent wave of educated immigrants. However, its main recommendation involves a fundamental reform of Canada's immigration selection process ...