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Immigration and location choices of native‐born workers in Canada
Author(s) -
Aydede Yigit
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12184
Subject(s) - immigration , destinations , demographic economics , native born , economics , cluster analysis , labour economics , economic geography , geography , tourism , computer science , archaeology , machine learning
Abstract This paper investigates a possible crowding‐out effect of immigration in Canadian labour markets and explores how location choices of native‐born workers can be influenced by industry and occupation specific immigration clustering in both the potential destinations and the departure regions. We apply choice‐specific, clustered fixed‐effect response models. The results show that industry‐specific immigration clustering indices have strong and negative effects on the location choices of the native born. When the scaled immigration measures are used, the results confirm the ‘substitution’ hypothesis: native‐born workers who choose lower immigration in their destinations also move from the origins with higher immigration in their industry.