1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«À l’aide de données administratives canadiennes particulièrement riches pour la période 1993–2007, on découvre qu’il n’y a pas d’évidence de participation plus élevée au programme d’Assurance Emploi (AE) d’une cohorte d’immigrants récents à l’autre dans le temps, non plus que d’évidence de participation accrue à l’AE des immigrants récents avec le nombre d’années passées au Canada, si ce n’est pour la courte période qui suit l’entrée dans le marché du travail canadien.» (p. 107)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«The LAD [Longitudinal Administrative Databank] is a random 20% sample of all Canadian tax filers and their families created from information provided by the Canada Revenue Agency.» (p. 114)
L’auteur utilise aussi plusieurs sondages et données gouvernementaux.

Instruments :
Sondage

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

In this article, «I report several new results. First, I find no evidence of rising EI [Employment Insurance] participation rates across recent arrival cohorts and no evidence that EI participation within cohorts rises with years in Canada beyond the initial short-term increases that most likely reflect the growing eligibility of immigrants for EI benefits. Using an econometric approach […], I show that once the differences in family market income, age, and composition and other observable differences between immigrants and the reference group are removed, the estimated long-run profiles of EI participation of immigrant men from six post-1990 arrival cohorts are similar to the long-run profiles of men from the reference group who entered the labour market around the same time. Second, the share of SA benefits in total transfer payments to immigrant families was markedly lower in the mid-2000s compared with the mid-1990s. It was also lower for the reference group, but the magnitude of the decline was larger for immigrant families, especially couples and unattached individuals. Neither descriptive nor econometric analysis shows any evidence of rising SA participation across recent immigrant cohorts or rising SA participation rates with years in Canada. Finally, I show that the share of child and family benefits in total government transfers to immigrant families has surpassed the share of SA benefits and now represents the single largest source of government transfers to such families.» (p. 109-110)