TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dungan, Peter
AU  - Fang, Tony
AU  - Gunderson, Morley
        TI  - Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro-Model
        PY  - 2012/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6743
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6743
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - FOCUS Model
KW  - immigration
KW  - macroeconomic impact
KW  - Canada
        ER  -