Title:	Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations
Authors:	Hussain Akbari, Syed Ather
Keywords:	Host Nations
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This is a book for all those interested in how to improve the economic integration of immigrants. The book uses Atlantic Canada as a laboratory to see how immigrants fare in regional labour markets and to identify best policy practices that can be used by other countries to address demographic challenges similar to those facing Canada—such as population ageing and youth out-migration from smaller regions to larger regions—through immigration. An overarching result is that analysing regional data can lead to very different conclusions than analysing national data, which means that it can be risky to devise immigration policy based only on national data. A key strength of the book is the extent of the statistics presented. Indeed, I would dare to say that I have never come across such a comprehensive and selfcontained compendium of facts and statistics on the labour market performance of immigrants in Atlantic Canada. This book should not only provide an invaluable source of information to policy makers interested in the labour market performance of immigrants in Atlantic Canada, but also provide a research template for researchers and policy makers in other countries who are also grasping with the type of immigration issues facing Canada. This book is also a trove of facts that call for further research. A case in point is the observation that immigrants in Atlantic Canada earn on average more than Canadian born individuals. This is intriguing since it is well known that for the whole of Canada, it is the other way around: immigrants earn less on average than Canadian born individuals despite being more educated and having more work experience. Such issue definitely deserves further research. Indeed it would probably be very instructive to know from a policy point of view why the labour market performance of immigrants in Atlantic Canada is so much better than that of immigrants in the rest of Canada. Another interesting contribution of the book is the discussion on how international students contribute to immigration in Atlantic Canada and what have been the policy initiatives by provincial governments to attract and retain international students.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/56242
ISBN:	978-94-007-6244-2
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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