Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62451 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6743
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use a macro-econometric forecasting model to simulate the impact on the Canadian economy of a hypothetical increase in immigration. Our simulations generally yield positive impacts on such factors as real GDP and GDP per capita, aggregate demand, investment, productivity, and government expenditures, taxes and especially net government balances, with essentially no impact on unemployment. This is generally buttressed by conclusions reached in the existing literature. Our analysis suggests that concern should be with respect to immigrants themselves as they are having an increasingly difficult time assimilating into the Canadian labour market, and new immigrants are increasingly falling into poverty.
Subjects: 
macroeconomic impact
immigration
FOCUS Model
Canada
JEL: 
J15
E17
J18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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