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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 ...
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Canada's Immigrant Selection Policies- Recent Record, Marginal Changes and Needed Reforms
This paper reviews the history of Canadian immigration policies and documents that the present policies impose on Canadians a fiscal burden of $20 billion annually. The existence of this burden is attributed to flaws in the current immigrant selection ...
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The Effects of Mass Immigration
Since 1990, Canada's annual rate of immigration has been extremely high-the highest in the world, averaging 0.75% of the population-and has had a significant impact on the size of the population, adding, between 1990 and 2006, 3.9 million (14.2%) to ...
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When is Immigration Bad?
The basic economic case for immigration is strong. In Canadas market economy immigrants on average receive wages that match their contribution to output, which in turn they use for their own purposes. As a result, the incomes of Canadians are the same ...