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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. A mawkish view of immigration overlooks the facts

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Vancouver Sun columnist Stephen Hume (The big picture shows immigrants are a good bet, May 30) dismisses as disingenuous our study for the Fraser Institute that estimated that recent immigrants admitted between 1987 and 2004 ...

4. Do Recent Immigrants impose a Fiscal Burden?

   Appeared in the Province Robert Vineberg in a recent editorial (“Fraser Institute’s immigration analysis is flawed,” May 26) challenged the validity of our analysis, which concluded that recent immigrants impose an annual fiscal burden of about $20 ...

5. 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 ...