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Provincial Nominee Programs: An Evaluation of the Earnings and Settlement Rates of Nominees

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  • Manish Pandey
  • James Townsend

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Provincial Nominee programs have increased the role of the provinces in selecting immigrants to Canada. We use administrative data to compare the earnings and settlement rates of Provincial Nominees (PNs) and immigrants through comparable federal programs, such as economic class immigrants (ECIs). We find that PNs experienced higher entry earnings, but slower subsequent earnings growth. While differences in observable characteristics of immigrants through the two programs played a nominal role in accounting for differences in entry earnings, they were more important in accounting for differences in subsequent earnings growth. Further, we find that PNs were more likely than ECIs to stay in the province to which they were initially destined, and that differences in observable characteristics account for most of the higher settlement rate of PNs.

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  • Manish Pandey & James Townsend, 2013. "Provincial Nominee Programs: An Evaluation of the Earnings and Settlement Rates of Nominees," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 39(4), pages 603-618, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:39:y:2013:i:4:p:603-618
    DOI: 10.3138/CPP.39.4.603
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    1. Casey Warman & Matthew D. Webb & Christopher Worswick, 2019. "Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children: how far does the apple fall?," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 32(1), pages 53-112, January.
    2. David A. Green & Christopher Worswick, 2017. "Canadian economics research on immigration through the lens of theories of justice," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 50(5), pages 1262-1303, December.
    3. Mike Shannon, 2015. "Canadian migration destinations of recent immigrants and interprovincial migrants: similarities, differences and explanations," IZA Journal of Migration and Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 4(1), pages 1-32, December.
    4. Aneta Bonikowska & Feng Hou & Garnett Picot, 2017. "New Immigrants Seeking New Places: The Role of Policy Changes in the Regional Distribution of New Immigrants to Canada," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 48(1), pages 174-190, March.

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